[For example, the words “Thing,” “Treasure,” “Town,” and the phrases “valuable Thing,” “material artificial Thing consisting of houses and streets,” “Town lit with gas,” “Town paved with gold,” “old English Book.”] Just as a Class is said to be Real , or Unreal , according as there is , or is not , an existing Thing in it, so also a Name is said to be Real , or Unreal , according as there is , or is not , an existing Thing represented by it.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

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— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

[ The Beroia and Brincas of Theophanes or his transcriber (p. 201) must be read or understood Verona and Brixia.]
— 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

If he had given her the option, by requesting or urging her, as if a refusal were possible, she might not have come—true and sincere as was her sympathy with Margaret.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

now, his state-room door swung open and the sun of his benignant face beamed redly out upon men and women and children, and he roared his “Shipmets a’hoy!” in a way that was calculated to wake the dead and precipitate the final resurrection; and forth he strode, a picture to look at and a presence to enforce attention.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

When the superstitions whose terrors have affrighted childhood are either conquered by reason or uprooted by worldly influence, they still leave behind them a strange passion for the marvellous, which in imaginative temperaments is frequently greatly developed, and becomes a great source of enjoyment or suffering to its possessor.
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever