You are so much used to live alone, that you do not know the value of a companion; and, perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex, after being used to it all her life.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Here is a connected chain of natural causes and voluntary actions; but the mind feels no difference betwixt them in passing from one link to another; nor is less certain of the future event than if it were connected with the present impressions of the memory and senses by a train of causes cemented together by what we are pleased to call a physical necessity.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Similarly a noun , as ancilla , used in the predicate to define the subject is called a predicate noun .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

But on this occasion his narrative is, for the most part, consistent and probable nor is there much difficulty in conceiving that an emperor might have access to some secret archives, which had escaped the diligence of meaner historians.
— 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

It is possible to conceive a people not subdivided into any castes or scale of ranks; in which the law, recognizing no privileges, should divide inherited property into equal shares; but which, at the same time, should be without knowledge and without freedom.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Even its very enemies, Celsus and Porphyry, never denied it.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

But all conditions are precedent, not only in this extreme sense, but also to the existence of the plaintiff's cause of action.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He brought back money and toys, at which the widow looked with alarm and jealousy; she asked him always if he had seen any gentleman—"Only old Sir William, who drove him about in the four-wheeled chaise, and Mr. Dobbin, who arrived on the beautiful bay horse in the afternoon—in the green coat and pink neck-cloth, with the gold-headed whip, who promised to show him the Tower of London and take him out with the Surrey hounds."
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

[*Footnote: He certainly extended the application of his conception to speculative cognitions also, provided they were given pure and completely a priori, nay, even to mathematics, although this science cannot possess an object otherwhere than in Possible experience.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

His cold and proud nature was always averse, however, from anything in the shape of public applause, and he bound me in the most stringent terms to say no further word of himself, his methods, or his successes—a prohibition which, as I have explained, has only now been removed.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

"My ends, Mr. Coristine, are public, not private, nor are they infamous, but for the good of the community and the individuals composing it.
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

It must be recognized that in certain regions, because of peculiar fitness of soil, climate and people, needful products can be produced there better and enough more cheaply than elsewhere to pay the cost of transportation.
— from Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

These are the Comanches, a powerful nation.
— from The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas by Frederick Marryat

Steel used for tool purposes should have as low phosphorus and sulphur contents as possible, not over 0.02 per cent.
— from The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by K. A. (Kristian A.) Juthe

This covering, or a covering of mats or canvass, as practised near Moscow, and from which the snow is raked off as fast as it falls, is sometimes kept on night and day for three months together.
— from The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple From its first introduction into Europe to the late improvements of T.A. Knight, esq. by J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon

Even that English critic who was perhaps his greatest admirer, makes the remark, literally true, but nevertheless misleading, that Bret Harte “did not create a perfectly noble, superior, commanding woman.”
— from The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin

As regards two of the categories, namely, cotton and woolen goods, the increase of an export trade is dependent upon an increase of the import of the raw material, since Germany produces no cotton and practically no wool.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

[348] What, in Weld's "Abridged Edition," is improperly called a "participial noun ," was, in his "original work," still more erroneously termed "a participial clause ."
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

A fable is a story, like that of King Log, or the Fox and the Grapes, in which characters and plot, neither pretending to reality nor demanding credence, are fabricated confessedly as the vehicle of moral or didactic instruction.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch