It was echoed from Salêve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This synthetical and a priori determined unity in relation of perceptions in time is therefore the rule: “All empirical determinations of time must be subject to rules of the general determination of time”; and the analogies of experience, of which we are now about to treat, must be rules of this nature.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

It may be urged that character, being a product of habitual modes of feeling, thinking, and [Pg 128] acting, cannot be spoken of as inherited , but bodily character is also a product dependent upon vital experience.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

] where being tuned with lute-strings, and played on with kees like an organ, a piece of parchment is always kept moving; and the strings, which by the kees are pressed down upon it, are grated in imitation of a bow, by the parchment; and so it is intended to resemble several vyalls played on with one bow, but so basely and harshly, that it will never do.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The degree of any passion depends upon the nature of its object; and an affection directed to a person, who is considerable in our eyes, fills and possesses the mind much more than one, which has for its object a person we esteem of less consequence.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The call of duty has often impelled a soldier or other public servant, or the adherent of a persecuted religion, to face certain and painful death, under circumstances where it might be avoided with little or no loss even of reputation.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

If certain acts are regarded as peculiarly dangerous under certain circumstances, a legislator may make them punishable if done under these circumstances, although the danger was not generally known.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"On" fait monter au créneau des artistes pour défendre une liberté qui pourrait ne profiter finalement qu'aux multinationales.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

“Well, it wasn’t right for her to say it,” said Anne, promptly deciding upon which horn of this dilemma to empale herself.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

For your information I now write you my programme, as at present determined upon.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

For a space, it may be, she saw once more the golden moons and the blazing suns of those twenty years that were gone; it may be that the soft, sweet music of spring came to her again, filled with the old, old song of life, and that Something gracious and painless descended upon her as a final reward for a glorious motherhood on earth.
— from Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood

This was reprinted in Paris by J. Liseux in 1876—" Advis pour dresser une Bibliothèque, présenté à Monseigneur le Président de Mesme , par G. Naudé P. Paris, chez François Farga, 1627."
— from How to Form a Library, 2nd ed by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley

And in the heart of this, set in the dense rain, is a farm-house far from any road; and round it the fields meet with many angles, and the hedges wind to make way, here, for a pond, deep underneath alders; there, for some scattered parcels of hayrick, on a grassy plot, encircling a large walnut tree; and for another pond, beside an apple orchard, whose trunks are lean and old and bent like the ribs of a wreck.
— from The Heart of England by Edward Thomas

He told me to take his hat and cane and put dem up, and to say, 'Thank you,' and 'Dis way, please,' and not to say no more to nobody, and I didn't.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

We wage not this controversy for the purpose of aiding a sect; but we wage it, to do what we can to expose and put down universally the sectarian spirit.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

Sometimes he would come up unexpectedly on the opposite side of me, having apparently passed directly under the boat.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Both nations avoided, as far as possible, drawing upon the armies destined for service in France.
— from History of the World War, Vol. 3 by Richard Joseph Beamish

To be sure I had passed through what I may call a paroxysm of Alexander Smith, a poet deeply unknown to the present generation, but then acclaimed immortal by all the critics, and put with Shakespeare, who must be a good deal astonished from time to time in his Elysian quiet by the companionship thrust upon him.
— from Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells

They look: when we stand aside, observing them, in their passage through the court-yard down below: as miserable as the prisoners in the gaol (it forms a part of the building), who are peeping down upon them, from between their bars; or, as the fragments of human heads which are still dangling in chains outside, in memory of the good old times, when their owners were strung up there, for the popular edification.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens