«Yo soy capitán bajo el estandarte del que, desde la muerte de Aben-Humeya, [91-2] titúlase legítimamente rey de los andaluces, Muley-Abdalá-Mahamud-Aben-Aboó, el cual, si no está ya sentado en el trono de Granada, es por
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

No object ever discovers, by the qualities which appear to the senses, either the causes which produced it, or the effects which will arise from it; nor can our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inference concerning real existence and matter of fact.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

78 But every eye, disregarding the crowd of captives, was fixed on the emperor Tetricus and the queen of the East.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But every eye, disregarding the crowd of captives, was fixed on the emperor Tetricus and the queen of the East.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

She comes to see me before evening every day, which of course must be noticed by my neighbours and my friends.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Eldest son of Gen. Lord Forbes (premier Baron of Scotland), by Eliz., eldest dau. of Walter Hunter, of Polmood, co. Peebles.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

I could not tell therefore how I ought to interpret such expressions, until God brought it into my mind that perhaps by your very praises you wished to exhort me, and to point out how great are those trials to which a statesman must inevitably be exposed every day of his life.)
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

2nd son of 1st Viscount Sydney, by Elizabeth, eldest dau.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

He himself believed in Phull, but everyone else distrusted the Prussian theorist—certainly not without good reason.
— from Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 by Edward (Edward A.) Foord

Before everything else determine to have for your porter a single man entirely devoted to your person.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Complete by Honoré de Balzac

Most have sought in vain the glen, Tower nor castle could they ken; Not at every time or tide, Nor by every eye descried, Fast and vigil must be borne, Many a night in watching worn, Ere an eye of mortal powers Can discern those magic towers.
— from Tales and Legends of the English Lakes by Wilson Armistead

The thing could be easy enough done.”
— from The Missing Merchantman by Harry Collingwood

It's my own damned business, and besides, everyone else does it!"
— from The Loom of Youth by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

The artistic beauty of Oriental rugs depends still more on the 299 colouring, since, as has been elsewhere expressed, drawing, which is intellectual, finds its highest development in the Occident, and colouring, which is sensuous, finds its highest development in the Orient.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley