The reader must naturally have a strong inducement to co-operate with the present author, if he has formed the intention of erecting a complete and solid edifice of metaphysical science, according to the plan now laid before him.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

In the reprint (not called a second edition) of my "Domestic Animals" I give a good additional case of subsequent progeny of hairless dog being hairy from effects of first impregnation.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

It was impossible to convey a stronger effect of moral reprobation.
— from The Helpmate by May Sinclair

THOMAS President of Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania This Monograph is contributed to the United States Educational Exhibit by the State of New York Attitude of different sections of the United States toward coeducation and separate education of men and women
— from Education of Women by M. Carey (Martha Carey) Thomas

He did not go much into the world and was little acquainted with its usages, yet he knew enough to suspect that a woman of the world would either ignore his letter, or would return a cold and snubbing expression of Miss Simpson's thanks for Mr. Stephen M. Langbourne's kindness.
— from A Pair of Patient Lovers by William Dean Howells

The many two-bath processes which have been found useful have been classified previously by the author [6] into three types: (1) The "Schultz type," in which such quantities of dichromate and acid are used that there is no excess of free acid (other than chromic), but an excess of unaltered dichromate; (2) the "Acid type," in which the chromic acid is completely free and the liquor contains also some excess of mineral acid also; and (3) the "Neutral type," in which neither of these main constituents is in excess, just sufficient mineral acid having been used to liberate all the chromic acid from the dichromate.
— from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett

They caught me in a moment; and, without further ceremony, stretching out my arms and legs, lashed them to the topmast-rigging, making what is called a spread eagle of me.
— from A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston

She will write down the names of callers and so ease our minds while we are away.
— from Round about Bar-le-Duc by Susanne R. (Susanne Rouviere) Day

In consequence of this division, a conference was held before the general court and several elders of Massachusetts.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall