In September, 1830, another proposition was made for the removal of the tribe, but the national council emphatically refused to consider the subject.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

" Kumar's departure brought me no elation; sadly I wondered how one with power to win a master's love could ever respond to cheaper allures.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Yet I could easily recognise this class of transgressions by the anguish of mind which preceded, as well as by the rigour of the punishment which followed them; and I knew that what I had just done was in the same category as certain other sins for which I had been severely chastised, though infinitely more serious than they.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

And as they thus formed the nucleus of the league, we find no column extant recording the compact between these cities.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

[37] «América latina»: es decir, si algo tienen de común esas repúblicas, tal comunidad habría necesariamente de encontrarse en los resabios de su existencia primitiva, caracterizada por revoluciones, atraso e ignorancia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It is true that we cannot infer from this that what does not contain in itself the supreme and complete condition—the condition of all other things—must possess only a conditioned existence; but as little can we assert the contrary, for this supposed being does not possess the only characteristic which can enable reason to cognize by means of an a priori conception the unconditioned and necessary nature of its existence.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The March number of " Household Words ," [70] for 1853, contains a ghost-story which exhibits another form of the belief, differing from those which we have already dwelt upon, and it is interesting from its comparatively recent occurrence, and from its having to a certain extent received the confirmation of a law-court.
— from Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites Including an Account of the Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural by John Netten Radcliffe

She described [Pg 206] them in detail, told stories of her childhood, even recounted the common incidents of her daily life with them.
— from A Man from the North by Arnold Bennett

"Yes, you can easily reach the Cross-Triangle in time for supper, if you start at once.
— from When A Man's A Man by Harold Bell Wright

If any doubts could exist respecting the complaisant part which Curee acted on this occasion one circumstance would suffice to remove them; that is, that ten days before the development of his proposition Bonaparte had caused the question of founding the Empire and establishing hereditary succession in his family to be secretly discussed in the Council of State.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

The characters which have been occupying our attention are so accurately and minutely delineated, and every detail is so admirably blended into the conception of the whole, that though a comparison with "Figaro" may doubtless show many superficial points of resemblance, a closer examination reveals the complete independence of the two works.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

What seems to have vanished from [341] the consciousness has really passed into a sub-consciousness, where it lives on in an organised form as real as if it were still part of the conscious personality; and although any experience may lie dormant, unknown to the conscious self, it may, and almost certainly will at some time, cause emotional reactions that continue without a known reason to excite and direct the outward ordinary life.
— from Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

Though he is an indefatigable observer, he never tires the reader; his heart overflowed with sentiment, yet his good taste never permitted him to utter a false note either of brutality or cant; he was a most eloquent advocate of emancipation, moderation, and peace, yet no diatribe of either a social or political character ever ruffled the celestial calm of his muse.
— from Russia: Its People and Its Literature by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

These marvels of nature-manufacture were carried on in privacy; for the very first work had been to enclose the hill, from cliff edge round to cliff edge on the other side, with a high stone wall, pierced by only two entrances—one, the main entrance with wrought-iron gates from France, and a lodge; the other, the farm or service entrance, nearer the village and the river.
— from Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips