It is not enough to believe only by force of conviction, when the automaton is inclined to believe the contrary.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

The game consists in throwing the ball or balls from one cup held by one player to some other cup held by some other player.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various

Foiled in this move, Chalmers hesitated to attack again in front, but began overlapping both flanks of Campbell's line by force of numbers, compelling Campbell to retire toward a strong position I had selected in his rear for a line on which to make our main resistance.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1 by Philip Henry Sheridan

The world did not leap by one bound from one condition to the other.
— from Evolution by Edward Hoare

We were very comfortable, grew as much Indian corn as we wanted, had plenty of venison, bear, and wild honey, and we could always procure powder, coffee, and whatever else we wanted in exchange for our bears’ fat, skins, &c.; so that every one would have allowed that we could not {294} be better off, but for one circumstance that embittered our existence and exposed us to numberless dangers.
— from Wild Sports in the Far West by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Also broken or burst foorth, or crushed in peeces.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

So the wagon led on softly, drifting down to the river, to a beating of bosques for outlaw cattle and a combing of half-forgotten ridges and pockets behind Christobal Mountain.
— from Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

From Newbern he was conducted by a guard of Horse to Halifax, and committed on his arrival, after forty-five miles journey the last day, in a sickly state of health, and immediately ushered into a common gaol, without bed or bedding, fire or candles, in a cold, long night, by Colonel Long, who did not appear to me to behave like a gentleman.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean