For the word I Will, in the former manner of speech, signifies an act of the will Present; but in the later, it signifies a promise of an act of the will to Come: and therefore the former words, being of the Present, transferre a future right; the later, that be of the Future, transferre nothing.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

We may therefore without contradiction consider it in the former aspect as free, but in the latter (in so far as it is merely appearance) as subject to natural necessity.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

"Colonel Brandon, I think, lodges in St. James Street," said he, soon afterwards, rising from his chair.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

It would be inconvenient to look into some heads, and not forget.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Such persons vaunt about not lying: but inability to lie is still far from being love to truth.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He glared at the two slender youths, and evidently concluded that with but little effort he could toss them both into the lake if so inclined.
— from The Twin Ventriloquists; or, Nimble Ike and Jack the Juggler A Tale of Strategy and Jugglery by Old Sleuth

Well, what I was going to say was, that when things is so, sometimes it is a true blessing if the little innocents should go off at the first, and so be spared the finger of shame and the sniff of scorn,” and she paused.
— from The Lady of Blossholme by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

92 If my delight had not been in thy law: I should have perished in my trouble.
— from The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

57 a rod connecting the valve rod with the movable block in the link, is susceptible of this motion, whereby the same result is arrived at as if the link were moved and the block was stationary.
— from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.

An’ I’m blamed if the landsman I sent it to didn’t telegraph me for a translation.
— from Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

If these bubbles are not destroyed, the absence of biting in the lines is shown in the proofs by a series of little white points.
— from A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne

But in the long inactive seconds, things had rushed ahead shattering the sunlit hour.
— from Deadlock: Pilgrimage, Volume 6 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson