He seemed too much occupied with some other subject to care about the failure of my errand, and his first words informed me that even in the short time of my absence another remarkable change had taken place in the house.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

A rite can have this character; in fact, the rite does not exist which does not have it to a certain degree.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In the cognition of them alone reason can hope to satisfy its desire of completeness in proceeding from the conditioned to its conditions.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

I also remember, continued he, that Aristotle affirms Homer’s words to be flying, moving, and consequently animated.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

They had heard already from Nastasya all that had been done for their Rodya during his illness, by this “very competent young man,” as Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov called him that evening in conversation with Dounia.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there, And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire Calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, 190 If not what resolution from despare.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Before the Flood thou with thy lusty Crew, False titl'd Sons of God, roaming the Earth Cast wanton eyes on the daughters of men, 180 And coupl'd with them, and begot a race. Have we not seen, or by relation heard, In Courts and Regal Chambers how thou lurk'st, In Wood or Grove by mossie Fountain side, In Valley or Green Meadow to way-lay Some beauty rare, Calisto, Clymene, Daphne, or Semele, Antiopa, Or Amymone, Syrinx, many more Too long, then lay'st thy scapes on names ador'd, Apollo, Neptune, Jupiter, or Pan, 190 Satyr, or Fawn, or Silvan?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there, And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire Calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, If not what resolution from despare.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

These perplexities and regrets caused her to bathe her pillow with nightly tears, and to reduce her in person and in mind to the shadow of what she had been.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wycliffe as a Realist could hold that God acted secundum rationes exemplares , by certain and known universal rules; the Nominalists reduced God to inscrutable omnipotence.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But in evil day— Bless me, at week's end, long as any year, The father must begin, ' Young Somebody, Much recommended—for I break a rule— Comes here to read, next Long Vacation. '—' Young! '
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

So also, rounding Cape Horn, traversing the vast waters of the Great Pacific, the British ensign may ever be met, and swarming, too, on those west and northwestern coasts of Spanish America, where, as from Bolivia to California, war and anarchy eternal seem to reign.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

But unless one went constantly to the German restaurants and theatres and movies, one could not find sufficient entertainment in the various Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross headquarters to occupy every evening of the week.
— from The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook

The servants who came with the message wore a red calico kaftan to the ground, with a red calico hood that looked like a domino.
— from Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Péter Vay

Have we not seen, or by relation heard, In courts and regal chambers how thou lurk'st, In wood or grove, by mossy fountain-side, In valley or green meadow, to waylay Some beauty rare, Calisto, Clymene, Daphne, or Semele, Antiopa,
— from Paradise Regained by John Milton

So intent were the twenty lads upon the scene, that they did not notice how the sun went down amidst rising clouds, how the wind began to sigh through the forest; darkness was gathering over the spectators and combatants, who had now fought many rounds, lasting nearly an hour, when at last, to the great joy of many present, Grabber, at the conclusion of a round, in which [48] he had exhausted all his strength, got a knock-down blow, and was unable to “come up to time,” so amidst deafening cheers, Cuthbert was hailed as the victor.
— from The Last Abbot of Glastonbury: A Tale of the Dissolution of the Monasteries by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

But this village uses English-made jam made from their own fruit and sugar, which, after being exported and reimported, costs half the price of home-made French jam."
— from France by Gordon Home