The phenomenon, being of an affectionate nature and moreover excitable, raised a loud cry, and Miss Belvawney and Miss Bravassa actually shed tears.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Though, therefore, an intelligible world in which everything would be actual merely because (as something good) it is possible, together with freedom as its formal condition, is for us a transcendent concept, not available as a constitutive principle to determine an Object and its objective reality; yet, because of the constitution of our (in part sensuous) nature and faculty it is, so far as we can represent it in accordance with the constitution of our Reason, for us and for all rational beings that have a connexion with the world of sense, a universal regulative principle .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

And among the same people, when a priest is bringing back a sick man’s soul which he has caught in a cloth, he is preceded by a girl holding the large leaf of a certain palm over his head as an umbrella to keep him and the soul from getting wet, in case it should rain; and he is followed by a man brandishing a sword to deter other souls from any attempt at rescuing the captured spirit.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Breames and Mr. Bens and Sir W. Pen fell a-drinking to him till he was drunk, and so sent him away.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

pretty while, it being dusky, and kissed her and so away home and writ my letters, and then home to supper, where the brother and Mary Batelier are still and Mercer’s two sisters.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Mr. Ben Allen looked at Mr. Pickwick; Mr. Pickwick looked at Mr. Ben Allen; Mr. Ben Allen smiled; Mr. Pickwick did not.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

We were brought back to a realization of our present conditions by a messenger bearing a summons from Lorquas Ptomel directing me to appear before him forthwith.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Once she had been engaged at an agency as a servant by a man, but as soon as his wife saw her Nellie was told she would not do.
— from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine

There was a noise without, and Uncle Henry was pushed in by a crude, foul-looking Mexican, then came "Red," Angela, and Hardy, followed by another Mexican bandit, and several Mexicans.
— from The Bad Man: A Novel by Porter Emerson Browne

The first provision concerning slavery which we find in our books, after Mississippi became a state, is contained in a clause in our first constitution, adopted in the town of Washington, August 15th, 1817, which provided that the Legislature might establish in each county a Court of Probate, for the discharge of various enumerated functions "and for the trial of slaves."
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society

The reading of these bottles alone might be a sufficient inducement to visit the moon, with those persons who excel in providing their friends with motives, and in explaining every thing in the look or manner, which is abstruse; for here, in a few minutes, such discoveries are made, as must be unattainable by mere inquiry and sagacity; and I think that amongst all the incentives to curiosity and study, there is nothing that so much provokes research as a mysterious melancholy in one who seemingly has every title to mirth.
— from Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds by Russell, John Russell, Earl

Again it invited me, sometimes to dinner, often to tea; and again Miss Brabazon assured me by a sidelong glance that it was no fault of hers if I were still single.
— from A Strange Story — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It is Prussia that bars the way in all these directions, Prussia, which, in itself not a nation but a military bureaucracy, a survival of the old territorial dynastic principle which the world has largely outgrown, has stamped its character and system upon the German people.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

It is a singular street for so big a man, but a specialist who has a European reputation can afford to live where he likes.
— from The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle

About 1837 he started with Mr. Burt and Mr. Billings a stage line from Brattleboro to Worcester.
— from Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

As he rushed into the Calle de Bordadores, a man brandished a stick and tried to stop him.
— from Their Son; The Necklace by Eduardo Zamacois