When Doctor Mandelet dined with the Pontelliers on Thursday he could discern in Mrs. Pontellier no trace of that morbid condition which her husband had reported to him.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Besides, if particular proofs are denied in a complex demonstration, it must follow that the whole demonstration is also incorrect.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

[A13; c1] do in multiples of eight. tagi-(←)
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There is nothing which I can distinguish in my mind with more clearness than the three states, of indifference, of pleasure, and of pain.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end—that change is the one immutable and eternal law—but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

But to see how the old man do strut, and swear that he understands all his duty as easily as crack a nut, and easier, he told my Lord Chancellor, for his teeth are gone; and that he understands it as well as any man in England; and that he will never leave to record that he should be said to be unable to do his duty alone; though, God knows, he cannot do it more than a child.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The other chapters have to do largely with the church dispute in Mecca in 1511, answer the religious objectors to coffee, and conclude with a collection of Arabic verses composed during the Mecca controversy by the best poets of the time.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Guinea corn , Doura, Indian millet, negro-corn ( Sorghum vulgare ).
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

Social life, however, in spite of class distinctions, is much freer than industrial life, and the men resented the extension of industrial control to domestic and social arrangements.
— from Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams

But I cannot," distressfully, "I must not!
— from Starvecrow Farm by Stanley John Weyman

The Chevallier Dillon informs me that this is the case: hence I have coloured this group blue.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

But their conditional deterioration is manifest in general deterioration of physique, of looks, and frequently of health.
— from Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

C. Iulius C.F. Caesar, Dictator (II), M. Antonius M.F., Master of Horse, and the two consuls C. Fufius C.F. Calenus and P. Vatinius P.F. (B.C. 47 = a.u. 707.) ( BOOK 42, BOISSEVAIN .)
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

The pair we observed spent some time inside, one entering as the other left, and they appeared occasionally to have considerable difficulty in managing the conveyance of some of the long straws, with which they grappled.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

By the way, I'd like to see what you could do in more unsimple meters than the ones that you handle so well.
— from The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

When the attack goes off I feel perfectly well, only I fancy I am suffering from continued deafness in my right ear.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 40, April, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various