This usage must be distinguished carefully from the similar use of the affirmative particle sí , marking a real or implied antithesis.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

But the minds of the people were so impressed with the idea, that scores of witnesses, half crazed by disease, came forward to swear that they also had seen the diabolical stranger, and had heard his chariot, drawn by the milk-white steeds, rumbling over the streets at midnight with a sound louder than thunder.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Il y a beaucoup de choses qui pourront se passer du papier, comme les annuaires, les guides, etc… Le livre-papier reste encore un objet désirable (oui, il faut mettre en avant ce concept d'avoir du désir pour un livre et toujours se poser la question "depuis combien de temps n'ai-je pas eu du désir pour un livre?").
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But Washington did in fact receive the said news by due course of mail.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

We may thus expect to find in the realm of Chinese mythology a large number of little hills rather than a few great mountains, but the little hills are very good ones after their kind; and the object of this work is to present Chinese myth as it is, not as it might have been had the universe been differently constituted.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Comfrey, Solomon’s Seal, Gentian, Birthwort, Daisies, &c. Expel Wind. Smallage, Parsly, Fennel, Water-flag, Garlick, Costus, Galanga, Hog’s Fennel, Zedoary, Spikenard Indian, and Celtic, &c. Breed Seed.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The Cid was a real hero to the Spaniards: first, because he fought so magnificently, and that used once to be title enough to reverence; secondly, because, like the mythical Bernardo del Carpio and the real Fernando Gonzalez, he was the champion of Castile, and had bearded the King of Leon, and thus represented the immemorial jealousy which the Castilians entertained for the powerful neighbours who absorbed their province; and thirdly, because the minstrels forgot his long alliance with the Moors, or contrived to give it a disinterested aspect, and remembered him only as the great champion of the Christian people against the infidels.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

H2 anchor THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS ‘Dear children,’ said a poor man to his four sons, ‘I have nothing to give you; you must go out into the wide world and try your luck.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Vodka's made to be drunk, caviare to be eaten, women to sleep with, snow to walk on.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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— from Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College by Ralph Nevill

As early as the time of Gui Foucoix that jurist treats it as the universal practice; a nearly contemporary MS. manual lays it down as an invariable rule; and in the later periods we are coolly {439} informed by both Eymerich and Bernardo di Como that cases were rare in which risk did not exist; that it was great when the accused was rich and powerful, but greater still when he was poor and had friends who had nothing to lose.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

Here, too, he reaps:— 'The harvests of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.'" His thoughts, and feelings, and visions, and dreams, and fancies, and imaginations, are all his own, by some divine right which no other mortal shares along with him; and, true as they all are to nature, are all distinguished by some indefinable, but delightful charm peculiar to his own being, which assuredly is the most purely spiritual that ever was enshrined in human dust.
— from Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love by Edmund Lee

Furthermore, until such a substitute is found, we have to acknowledge that it is the only thing we have any idea of corresponding to a gas as described by Dr. Crookes; that is, a multitude of molecules colliding with and bombarding each other or their prison walls.
— from New Theories in Astronomy by Willam Stirling

It is provided that "a charge of prostitution made by the husband against the wife falsely shall be deemed cruel treatment, within the meaning of this section."— Code (1900), 662.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

Cap’n Goat wus walkin’ up an’ down de branch washin’ his foots an’ takin’ er swall’r er water ev’y now an’ den, an’ whin Tom Cat come erlong an’ op’n up an’ tell his biznes’, de Cap’n git so ’cited, dat he stomp water all ov’r creation, an’ Tom git right sharply sprinkl’d.
— from Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South by Sarah Johnson Cocke

Next morning, the armoured train was out early; but the Boers discreetly connived at its effrontery—having, doubtless, still in their minds unpleasant recollections of its volley-firing.
— from The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters by T. Phelan

Travellers slept on the road at Etampes or Pithiviers, a spot rendered immortal by Perlet's admirable personification in "Le Comédien d'Etampes;" hotel living, with its good fare and bad beds, being preferred to highroad living, with its obligato accompaniment 296 of broken down cattle, rickety coaches, and highwaymen armed to the teeth.
— from Coaching, with Anecdotes of the Road by Lennox, William Pitt, Lord