The lark rose up carolling from the field, twittering her morning lay over the coffin, and presently perched upon it, picking with her beak at the straw covering, as though she would tear it up.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

There is a pedantic phrase used in debating clubs which is strictly true to the masculine emotion; they call it “speaking to the question.”
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

There is no philosopher, whose judgment is so riveted to this fantastical system of liberty, as not to acknowledge the force of moral evidence, and both in speculation and practice proceed upon it, as upon a reasonable foundation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

ANT: Permit, persuade, urge, instigate, encourage, liberate, induce, seduce, tempt.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

id agit populo plane ut incommodet: tamen quia quod praecipuum est regiae dignitatis amifit, ut summus scilicet in regno secundum Deum sit, & solo Deo inferior, atque populum etiam totum ignorantem vel invitum, cujus libertatem sartam & tectam conservare debuit, in alterius gentis ditionem & potestatem dedidit; hac velut quadam regni ab alienatione effecit, ut nec quod ipse in regno imperium habuit retineat, nec in eum cui collatum voluit, juris quicquam transferat; atque ita eo facto liberum jam & suae potestatis populum relinquit, cujus rei exemplum unum annales Scotici suppeditant.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

When these ideas of God, of an intelligible world (the kingdom of God), and of immortality are further determined by predicates taken from our own nature, we must not regard this determination as a sensualizing of those pure rational ideas (anthropomorphism), nor as a transcendent knowledge of supersensible objects; for these predicates are no others than understanding and will, considered too in the relation to each other in which they must be conceived in the moral law, and therefore, only so far as a pure practical use is made of them.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Nagkalamúkat ang labábu sa mga plátu ug kaldíru, The sink is a mess with all the kettles and plates piled up in it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But—and this is a peculiarity practically unknown in England—the German practice invariably reverses the charges upon the dexter shield, so that the charges upon the two shields "respect" each other.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Thus the foundation which Kant gave to his moral law by no means consists in its being proved empirically to be a fact of consciousness; neither does he base it on an appeal to moral feeling, nor yet on a petitio principii , under its fine modern name of an "absolute Postulate."
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

This press with its levers was for a long time the model for all printing presses used in this country.
— from The Book: Its History and Development by Cyril Davenport

When the table was spread, the corn cakes and pork placed upon it, with some milk, John seated himself with the children beside him, and attended to their little wants, with such kindness of manner, that ere the meal had ended, the little family began to imbibe something of their guest's gay spirit.
— from The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character by John S. Robb

He didn't realize how much time had passed until he opened his eyes again just as Pegasus pulled up into a bank that sent the blood from his head and almost caused him to black out again.
— from The Scarlet Lake Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

All the suffering and passion pent up in his soul for twelve long months had broken loose and were uttered in it.
— from Princess Napraxine, Volume 3 (of 3) by Ouida

This divine “frightfulness” is of course the natural human dislike and distrust for queer practices or for too sunny a carelessness, a dislike reinforced by the latent fierceness of the ape in us, liberating the latent fierceness of the ape in us, giving it an excuse and pressing permission upon it, handing the thing hated and feared over to its secular arm. . .
— from God, the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There was an enclosed stage erected and a piano placed upon it and each night speeches were made (and ringing ones too) and I think all the sleepy mossbacks were wide awake at last and realized that their kind of Democracy was tottering and waiting for the last blow.
— from Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson

Revelation of the True Anabaptists," secretly published by the Anabaptistic printer Philip Ulhart in Augsburg and accepted as a sort of confession by the council held by the Anabaptists in the fall of 1527 at Augsburg.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

I awoke at the sound, and collecting my energies—for I had been half-asleep,—stretched out my hand to my note-book, looked up the lecture, and with the words swaying before me, read sleepily:— "Leave us Reason in any existence;—strip us of sight, sound, touch, and all the external constitution of nature, clothe us with whatever feelings and powers, place us in whatever scenes may come—but gift us with this universal faculty, our power of knowing truth.
— from The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall

Hence, as one language, the Slavonic gives us the undoubted fact of an active præterite growing out of a passive participle (unless, indeed, we chose to say that both are derived from a common origin); and as the English participle and præterite, when weak, are nearly identical, we have reason for believing that the d , in the English active præterite, is the t in the Latin passive participle. § 466 .
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

There can scarcely be distinction in a printed piece unless its source is in the successive steps of progress that antedate the composition of the type.
— from Printing in Relation to Graphic Art by George French