Taking some azotic acid, he mixed it with glycerine, which had been previously concentrated by evaporation, subjected to the water-bath, and he obtained, without even employing a refrigerant mixture, several pints of an oily yellow mixture.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Thirdly, to say the World was not Created, but Eternall, (seeing that which is Eternall has no cause,) is to deny there is a God.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Besides, it can be easily seen that White will soon post his two Knights at K 5 and Q B 5 respectively, and that Black will not be able to dislodge them without seriously weakening his game, if he can do it at all.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

In the same way also it can be easily shown, that a thing may be accidentally the cause of desire.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

In this fable he explains the common but erroneous supposition that knowledge and the conformity of the will, knowing and acting, are convertible terms.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

I further argued that General Grant was at the moment engaged on the most delicate and difficult task of reorganizing the army under the act of July 28, 1866; that if the real object was to put Mr. Campbell in official communication with President Juarez, supposed to be at El Paso or Monterey, either General Hancock, whose command embraced New Mexico, or General Sheridan, whose command included Texas, could fulfill the object perfectly; or, in the event of neither of these alternates proving satisfactory to the Secretary of State, that I could be easier spared than General Grant.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

“Let time, dearest,” she answered, “satisfy our mutual curiosity.” M—— M—— had, amongst the charms and trinkets fastened to the chain of her watch, a small crystal bottle exactly similar to one that I wore myself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This increased Doña Victorina’s ill humor, for the officer not only did not proffer any compliment on her costume, but even seemed to stare at it in a mocking way.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The speculative restriction of pure reason and its practical extension bring it into that relation of equality in which reason in general can be employed suitably to its end, and this example proves better than any other that the path to wisdom, if it is to be made sure and not to be impassable or misleading, must with us men inevitably pass through science; but it is not till this is complete that we can be convinced that it leads to this goal. {BOOK_2|CHAPTER_2 ^paragraph 85} VIII.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

I've had them sewed up in cotton bags ever since Thomas died, and no doubt they're an awful color.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Then followed the confusing and confounding impressions of the landing, where the great nation, compelled by experience, seems to guard itself against the instreaming invasion of undesired elements, and investigates and selects with humiliating, apparently heartless strictness, as though we were animals to be examined.
— from The Bride of Dreams by Frederik van Eeden

For Lucius has occupied the bow seat of the Cambridge boat ever since they went into practice, and is even now, as Mr. Binney's steamer makes its way up the crowded river, preparing to help launch the frail shell which all those in whom we are interested confidently hope will soon bear him to victory.
— from Peter Binney: A Novel by Archibald Marshall

The Traiti were aware that there was no way Tarlac could have known that custom, but even so, the fact that he had come to them armed was seen as a good omen.
— from Fearful Symmetry: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

Perverseness is a bracer to a love-sick girl, and more effectual than the cold bath to make hardy, although the constitution be ever so tender.'
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson

"The House being informed [March 20th] that Clobery Bromley, Esq., son to the Speaker, died that morning; out of respect to the father, and to give him time, both to perform the funeral rites, and to indulge his just affliction, they thought fit to adjourn to" the 26th.—"Hist.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift

"'Ladies and gentlemen,' says he, 'I have the honor to present to this intelligent audience a creature which is commonly, but erroneously, supposed to be extinct at the present
— from Side Show Studies by Francis Metcalfe

"You cannot comprehend how any foot could be even smaller than yours.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach