Page, Bacon & Co., and Adams & Co., were in full blast across the street, in Parrott's new granite building, and other bankers were doing seemingly a prosperous business, among them Wells, Fargo & Co.; Drexel, Sather & Church; Burgoyne & Co.; James King of Win.;
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Now as we cannot cognize completely a priori the existence of any object of sense, though we can do so comparatively a priori, that is, relatively to some other previously given existence—a cognition, however, which can only be of such an existence as must be contained in the complex of experience, of which the previously given perception is a part—the necessity of existence can never be cognized from conceptions, but always, on the contrary, from its connection with that which is an object of perception.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Clyffe , sb. cliff, MD; clyfe , MD; cliue , dat. , S; cleoue , MD; cleo , S; cliues , pl. , MD; cleues , MD.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

And though she felt sure that a coldness was beginning, there was nothing she could do, she could not in any way alter her relations to him.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I do not ask you to do any wrong to society; but I ask you to save our stainless name from degradation and shame, if you can do so conscientiously.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on the occasion of the coronation of Charles II.] the King’s Chaplins, Dr. Scarborough, [Charles Scarburgh, M.D., an eminent physician who suffered for the royal cause during the Civil Wars.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Pour internet : une concentration des sites commerciaux mais une explosion des sites persos qui seront regroupés par communautés d'intérêt.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Desde luego tendría Ud. que gastar en la traducción al castellano de sus catálogos, pues no hay que pensar en remitirlos en inglés.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Lily was simply some one who needed help—for what reason, there was no time to pause and conjecture: disciplined sympathy checked the wonder on Gerty's lips, and made her draw her friend silently into the sitting-room and seat her by the darkened hearth.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Had Barbara not been a confirmed drunkard, she could never have drank a full bottle of brandy in so short a time.
— from The Betrayal of John Fordham by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Here is the membership of the Citizens Committee for International Development: Eugenie Anderson (member of the Atlantic Union Committee); William Benton (Chairman of the Board of Encyclopaedia Britannica ; member of the Atlantic Union Committee); Everett N. Case (President of Colgate University); O. Roy Chalk (President of the District of Columbia Transit Company); Malcolm S. Forbes (Editor and Publisher of Forbes Magazine ); Eleanor Clark French ; Albert M. Greenfield (Honorary Chairman of the Board of Bankers Security Corporation, Philadelphia); General Alfred M. Gruenther (President of the American National Red Cross; member of the Atlantic Union Committee); Murray D. Lincoln (Chairman of Nationwide Insurance Company); Sol M. Linowitz (Chairman of Zerox Corporation); George Meany (President of AFL-CIO); William S. Paley (Chairman of the Board, Columbia Broadcasting System); Warren Lee Pierson (Chairman of the Board, Trans-World Airways); Ross Pritchard (Professor of Political Science, Southwestern University, Memphis); Thomas S. Nichols (Chairman of the Board of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation; member of the Atlantic Union Committee); Mrs. Mary G. Roebling (President Of Trenton Trust Company); David Sarnoff (Chairman of Radio Corporation of America); Walter Sterling Surrey (legal consultant, Economic Cooperation Administration); Thomas J. Watson, Jr. , (President of International Business Machines Corporation); Walter H. Wheeler, Jr. , (President of Pitney-Bowes); James D. Zellerbach (President and Director of Crown-Zellerbach Corporation; Chairman of Fibreboard Products, Inc.; member of the Atlantic Union Committee and United World Federalists); Ezra Zilkha (head of Zilkha & Sons).
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

We had, however, a capital dinner, some cups of good tea, and a luxurious rest for the night, the room having been heated with a good blazing fire and lots of smoke, with no outlet for either, except the door and a small hole in the roof.”
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 3 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

Moderation n’eust arrestè le Cours de Ses Conquestes, et prescrit des bornes a Sa Valeur, plus grande encore que sa Fortune.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

Christmas Day should come and go before any of the dark shadow which filled her own breast should descend upon the younger members of the household.
— from Good Luck by L. T. Meade

Their "opinions" and "arguments" are often of the greatest possible value—often very masterly; and no one more highly estimated, or was more frequently and largely indebted to them, than Sir William Follett; but who could do such complete justice to them and so suddenly—as he?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

But I desire also to conform to the wishes of its owners if I can do so conscientiously."
— from Options by O. Henry