On the 24th of March it captured Union City, Kentucky, and its garrison, and on the 24th attacked Paducah, commanded by Colonel S. G. Hicks, 40th Illinois Volunteers.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I, on the contrary, prove in the first place, that space (and also time, which Berkeley did not consider) and all its determinations a priori , can be cognised by us, because, no less than time, it inheres in our sensibility as a pure form before all perception or experience and makes all intuition of the same, and therefore all its phenomena, possible.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

During period 2 the flour and malt soup were omitted from the diet, the same amount of milk and potassium carbonate being continued.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The Son, by whom all things were made, had been begotten before all worlds, and the longest of the astronomical periods could be compared only as a fleeting moment to the extent of his duration; yet this duration was not infinite, and there had been a time which preceded the ineffable generation of the Logos .
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Yes, it is strange how little a while at a time a person can be contented.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The doctors, therefore, all previous ceremonies being complied with, as this was a new patient, attended, according to desire, and laid hold on each of her hands, as they had before done on those of the corpse.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"All that I know is that their name is Travers, and it's a place called Brinkley Court down in Worcestershire."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

For to assert that salvation is not only possible but urgently necessary, that every soul is now in an intolerable condition and should search for an ultimate solution to all its troubles, a restoration to a normal and somehow blessed state—what is this but to assert that the nature of things has a permanent constitution, by conformity with which man may secure his happiness?
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

lix.); hence men, in so far as they are assailed by emotions which are passions, can be contrary one to another.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

We have to deal with a man with a peculiar conscience, but certainly a conscience.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

To give more importance to the event, they renewed at this time all the articles which they used, such as plates, cups, baskets, clothes, and the dresses of the idols; they swept their houses and cast everything into the place where they put their rubbish; and no one dared to touch what was cast away, even though greatly in need of it.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Comfort and prosperity came; but comfort was dearly bought with loss of pureness, and prosperity with loss of faith.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

So far as possession can be considered as an oppressive measure in the hands of a few, it is a monopoly.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 by Various

A green and prickly chestnut bur came whizzing into the room, landing in the middle of her bed.
— from The Pansy, November 1886, Vol. 14 by Various

Industries: tourism, offshore financial services Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - production: 5 million kWh (2000) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0% Electricity - consumption: 4.65 million kWh (2000) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2000) Agriculture - products: corn, beans, cassava (tapioca), citrus fruits; fish Exports: $13.7 million (1999) Exports - commodities: lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells Exports - partners: US, UK Imports: $175.6 million (1999) Imports - commodities: food and beverages, tobacco, clothing, manufactures, construction materials Imports - partners: US, UK Debt - external: $NA Economic aid - recipient: $4.1 million (1997) Currency: US dollar (USD) Currency code: USD Exchange rates: the US dollar is used Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Turks and Caicos Islands Telephones - main lines in use: 3,000 (1994) Telephones - mobile cellular: 0 (1994) Telephone system: general assessment: fair cable and radiotelephone services domestic: NA international: 2 submarine cables; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 3 (one inactive), FM 6, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 8,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 0 (broadcasts from The Bahamas are received; cable television is established) (1997)
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He appeared far more gifted than Pokorsky, and yet all the while he was a poor creature by comparison.
— from Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett

As I stood in the corridor waiting, a page came by, calling my name for the telephone.
— from The Man Who Ended War by Hollis Godfrey

6. PASCAL ROUGON, born in 1813, never marries, has a posthumous child by Clotilde Rougon in 1874; dies of heart disease on November 7, 1873.
— from A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by J. G Patterson

The beginning of most drawn thread work is hem stitching, the two edges marking the limit of the withdrawn threads have usually to be hem stitched before any pattern can be carried out.
— from Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie

In the Sacrament there is not a mere representation of Christ or a bare commemoration of events in which we are interested; but there is also an actual, present communion between Christ and the soul.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians by Marcus Dods