In general we may observe, that all the relations of blood depend upon cause and effect, and are esteemed near or remote, according to the number of connecting causes interposed betwixt the persons.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

1a may — pa of course, could it be different?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

3. A former settlement in Cades cove, on Cove creek, in Blount county, Tennessee.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The Cathedral of St. Mary, which I afterwards visited, where the Irish attend, was a contrast indeed, and more like one of our stifling Irish Catholic churches in Boston or New York, with intelligence in so small a proportion to the number of faces.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

A man clad completely in black, even (it was remembered) to the dreadful detail of black gloves, appeared on the ridge above the engine, and waved his black hands like some sable windmill.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

This theatre was under the direction of one of the most curious creatures in Berlin: he was called 'Cerf,' and the title of Commissionsrath had been conferred upon him by the King of Prussia.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Their weapons are chiefly clubs, iron being little used among them.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

Today the trend in conservative circles is back toward that bondage again.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

Though I put it to yourself, sir, whether it were calc'lated to keep a man up to his work with a good hart, to be continiwally cutting in betwixt him and the Ghost with “Amen!”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

On a hill above stood the town of Biguglia, the capital of the island under the Pisans and Genoese, till in the fourteenth century Henri della Rocca, with the insurgent Corsicans, carried it by assault.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

The crowd closed in behind him and shut out all but the faintest glimmer of day, and before he could arrest himself he had fallen headlong over the feet of a seated man.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"If he knew, and if he could come, I believe he would."
— from The New Gulliver, and Other Stories by Barry Pain

Bayonne (24), a fortified French town, trading and manufacturing, in the dep. of Basses-Pyrénées, at the confluence of the Adour and Nive, 4 m. from the Bay of Biscay; noted for its strong citadel, constructed by Vauban, and one of his chef-d'oeuvres , and its 12th-century cathedral church; it belonged to the English from 1152 to 1451.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

There was his home across the hills, with its cool chambers, its books and pictures, its gardens and memories.
— from The Half-Hearted by John Buchan

"No," said Craven, complacently; "I believe I scored a point in my favor with the boy by favoring the project.
— from Frank Hunter's Peril by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

It's true you cannot convert ignorant boys into finished scholars in three months, however humble may be the attainments required; but you may do something towards it by means of drilling.
— from Mildred Arkell: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

People don't catch cold in bed.
— from Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale

for a long time I doubted the truth of Scripture, owing to certain conceited individuals, but now I begin to believe firmly; what wonderful texts are in Scripture, Belle; ‘The wicked trembleth where—where—’” “‘They were afraid where no fear was; thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised them,’” said Belle; “I have frequently read it before the clergyman in the great house of Long Melford.
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow

I cannot conceive in beautiful scenery any thing more picturesque than the gorge of the Niagara river: it combines rapid water, a placid bay, a tremendous wall of rock, forest, glade, village, column, active and passive life.
— from Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 1 by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir