I've a natural claim on her that must stand before every other.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

"It is with great pleasure that I offer to you," he says, "some observations upon the Military strength and Naval convenience of Toronto (now York)
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Yet that is how certain of our landowners are now carrying on.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

She liked the pretty little cottages in the village of Helmsley, and she did not mind begging for a holiday for the school children (who adored her) now and then; and she had heard with pleasure of Lady Ashley's pattern alm-houses and dainty orphanage, where the old women wore red cloaks, and the children were exceedingly picturesque; but as a necessary consequence of her life-training, she did not want to know anything about disease or misery or sin.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

"If when I die the ones who know me best believe that I was a thoughtful, helpful husband, a loving, wise and painstaking father, a generous, kindly neighbor and an honest citizen, that will be a far more real honor, and will prove my life to have been more successful than the fact that I have ever been president of the United States. Had a few events over which no one had control been other than they were it is quite possible I might never have held the high office I now occupy, but no train of events could accidentally make me a noble character or a faithful member of my home and community.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

"She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

But I am not capable of handling so rich an argument, and shall therefore only set five Latin poets together, contending in the praise of Cato; and, incidentally, for their own too.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Lucy's eyes turned with anxious interest toward Maggie to see how she went through this first interview, since a sadly memorable time, with a man toward whom she must have so strange a mixture of feelings; but she was pleased to notice that Wakem had tact enough to enter at once into talk about the bazaar wares, and appear interested in purchasing, smiling now and then kindly at Maggie, and not calling on her to speak much, as if he observed that she was rather pale and tremulous.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Some kind of devils are not cast out but by fasting and prayer, and both necessarily required, not one without the other.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Here, in respect of the practical, it is left undetermined whether the concept which gives the rule to the causality of the will, is a natural concept or a concept of freedom.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

I have sometimes questioned whether many libels on human nature had not been a natural consequence of the celibacy of the clergy, which was enforced for so long a period.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The earliest records in this character are graven on the unburned bricks of pyramidal-shaped temples, which a little before the time of Abraham began to be built by a nation composed of mixed Shemite, Cushite, and Scythian ( i.e. Turanian) peoples round the shores of the {311} Persian Gulf.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

Degenerates, hysterics, and neurasthenics are not capable of adaptation.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

The one is a necessary condition of the other.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

The words just cited are not casual or episodical; they strike the keynote of the whole poem, lay the keystone of the whole arch of thought.
— from A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Here she underwent a strict examination by the privy-council respecting Wyat's insurrection, and the rising in the West under Carew; but she steadfastly protested her innocence and ignorance of all such designs; and nothing coming out against her, in about a fortnight she was dismissed, and suffered to return to her own house.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

Patiently she investigated the rocks upon the hillside, quickly learning where she might venture to be free from the sudden indisposition, and where it was sure to attack her; for there appeared no cessation of the phenomenon.
— from The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan