Cook and King: Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, III., 473: "In justice to the memory of Bering, I must say that he has delineated the coast very well, and fixed the latitude and longitude of the points better than could be expected from the methods he had to go by.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

p. 101, 102, &c.) He ridicules the folly of such vain imitation; and amuses himself with inquiring, what lessons, moral or theological, could be extracted from the Grecian fables.
— 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

A whole penitentiary system can be evolved from that word.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

In this way it can be understood why in the whole faculty of reason it is the practical reason only that can help us to pass beyond the world of sense and give us knowledge of a supersensible order and connection, which, however, for this very reason cannot be extended further than is necessary for pure practical purposes.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Why, everything has long ago been extracted that can be extracted from that rubbish in which you are always rummaging.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It was also intended to institute a comparison between the map and such remains of ancient geography as can be extracted from the Puranas and other Hindu authorities; which, however, must be deferred to a future period, when the deficiency of the 3 present rapid and general sketch may be supplied, should the author be enabled to resume his labours.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

If such was the fate of the most beautiful compositions of genius, what stability could be expected for the dull and barren works of an obsolete science?
— 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

Seventy years elapsed before this painful thorn could be extirpated from the bosom of the monarchy; and as long as the emperors retained any share of these remote and useless possessions, their vanity might number Spain in the list of their provinces, and the successors of Alaric in the rank of their vassals.
— 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

Each of these articles, as it travels in its own direction on the closed circuit, meets on its way articles of the other class, and is constantly being exchanged for them.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Under all these discouragements, little improvement could be expected from the occupiers of land.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Such a view is contradicted by the simplest mathematical consideration; for it is obvious that none of the relatively few cells of the embryo can be excluded from the enormous increase by division, which must take place in order to produce the large number of daughter individuals which form a colony of polypes.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

" But even if any disparaging sense could be eliminated from this particular word, Jerome's opinion is otherwise expressed.
— from The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney

In the opinion of the author, Jervis was right not to expose this, the great and attained result of Valentine's Day, to those chances of mishap that cannot be excluded from the operations of war.
— from The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, vol 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

No commodity can be exported from the Federal Republic of Germany or Western Berlin unless it is covered by an export-control document, which is issued by the interior customs authorities.
— from East-West Trade Trends Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act); Fourth Report to Congress, Second Half of 1953 by United States. Foreign Operations Administration

The Bourbons of Naples were ascertained to have learnt nothing and unlearnt nothing; perfidy alone could be expected from them.
— from Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

If the player in fault be the dealer, the eldest hand may require him to play the highest or lowest card of the suit in which he has renounced, provided both of the dealer's adversaries have played to the current trick; but this penalty cannot be exacted from the dealer when he is fourth in hand, nor can it be enforced at all from Dummy.
— from Hoyle's Games Modernized by Professor Hoffmann

Naturally: for with us they receive careful education; they acquire of necessity the simple tastes and disciplined habits which lead to industry and perseverance; and, for the most part, they carry with them throughout life a purer moral code, a more systematic reverence for things and thoughts religious, associated with their earliest images of affection and respect, than can be expected from the sons of laymen whose parents are wholly temporal and worldly.
— from Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

And what a gorgeous time it had proven to be for all concerned, but especially for the boys.
— from The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge

The most natural plan is to develop the QB at K3, from where it can be exchanged for the Knight should Kt-Q5 be played.
— from Chess Strategy by Edward Lasker

The French king returned an ambiguous answer; from whence it was concluded that nothing but opposition could be expected from that quarter.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett