From this principle I have accounted for that species of probability, derived from analogy, where we transfer our experience in past instances to objects which are resembling, but are not exactly the same with those concerning which we have had experience.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Here we arrange thus:— “Some | existing Things | are | rich bankers”; and “No | existing Things | are | poor bankers.”
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

And the city now enjoys plenty only as regards bread, and nothing else.)
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The souls of animals are recognised by a natural extension from the theory of human souls; the souls of trees and plants follow in some vague, partial way, and the [ 53 ] souls of inanimate objects expand the general category to its extremest boundary.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

He has most curious sight: in the daytime he can see all right, but at night, even in a lighted room, is not able to see a thing that is handed to him; he says he is "night blind."
— from Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Katherine Mary Barrow

And why must you run a risk by a naval engagement?
— from The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls by Herodotus

Next to the pendulum stands a rod bearing a narrow elastic arm, which slightly presses the extremity of a lead-pencil against the surface of the cylinder.
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

The ground-level entrance was blocked, and replaced by a new entrance twenty-one feet higher, accessible only by ladder.
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

His experience with such relatives was limited to a middle-aged person who wore a shawl the year around, and regarded boys as necessary evils, to be sent upon as many errands as possible in the course of the day.
— from The Story of the Big Front Door by Mary Finley Leonard

His azure back and wings and ruddy breast are not equalled in beauty of colour by any bird native to this country.
— from Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies

We've peaches a great many commodities in with the yellows, and weeviled such a condition that they are wheat, and rancid butter, and not exportable.
— from The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther