It's six now, so if you care for a stroll this beautiful evening I shall be very happy to introduce you to two curiosities.”
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

SYN: Establish, confirm, fulfill, authenticate, substantiate, identify, realize, test, warrant, demonstrate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

It is the office of our rational power to apprehend how swiftly all things vanish; how the corporeal forms are swallowed up in the material world, and the memory of them in the tide of ages.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

A very old Mouse, who had escaped many a trap and snare, observed from a safe distance the trick of his crafty foe and said, “Ah! you that lie there, may you prosper just in the same proportion as you are what you pretend to be!” H2 anchor
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

The German came forward and shook hands.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

He could feel and see, but he was not able to distinguish objects.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Thus when the term Horse is pronounced, we immediately figure to ourselves the idea of a black or a white animal, of a particular size or figure: But as that term is also usually applied to animals of other colours, figures and sizes, these ideas, though not actually present to the imagination, are easily recalled; and our reasoning and conclusion proceed in the same way, as if they were actually present.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

[2476] Baptista Portia confines fear and sorrow to them that are cold; but lovers, Sibyls, enthusiasts, he wholly excludes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This brought to our heroe's mind the custom which he had read of among the Greeks and Romans, of indulging, on certain festivals and solemn occasions, the liberty to slaves, of using an uncontrouled freedom of speech towards their masters.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

As "thunderbolts" come from a secret lassitude in what the catechism calls Virtue, and from boredom brought on by the uniformity of perfection, I should be inclined to think that it would generally be the privilege of what is known in the world as "a bad lot" to bring them down.
— from On Love by Stendhal

If there be any truth in the idea that those who issued from the great Caucasian fountain, and spread over Europe, are to react on India and on Asia, and to act on the whole Western world, it may not be for us, nor our children, nor our grandchildren to see it, but it will be for our descendants of some generation to see the extent of that progress and dominion of the favoured races.
— from The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People by John R. (John Randolph) Dos Passos

They came confusedly into his mind like a heap of broken mosaics,—sometimes a part of the picture complete in itself, sometimes connected fragments, and sometimes only single severed stones.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Her breath came fast as she ended.
— from The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

One dear, delightful, useful creature, who would come forward and say his say and finish off the matter in a trice.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

He was getting breakfast at the hotel when the alarm was given, when he and his escort took saddle, but soon realized that the alarm came from a set of our foragers, who, as usual, were extremely bold and rash.
— from Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 4 by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The man and monarch, then, who affixed his imperial signature to this first document of persecution in Europe—the first, because, as Renan has beautifully remarked, "We may search in vain the whole Roman law before Constantine for a single passage against freedom of thought, and the history of the imperial government furnishes no instance of a prosecution for entertaining an abstract doctrine,"—this is glory enough for the civilization 'which we call Pagan and which was replaced by the Asiatic religion—the man and the monarch who fathered the first instrument of persecution in our Europe, who introduced into our midst the crazed hounds of religious wars, unknown either in Greece or Rome, Constantine, has been held up by Cardinal Newman as "a pattern to all succeeding monarchs."
— from The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian

That of a vegeto-animal substance, commonly called ferment, and soluble in water.
— from The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain. Also, the Art of Converting It into Gin, after the Process of the Holland Distillers by Anthony Boucherie

CESAR FRANCK: A Study.
— from Glimpses of Indian Birds by Douglas Dewar

In a goodly number these units may be chosen from any subjects offered by an approved high school.
— from On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd