But this purity of perception implies a break with utilitarian convention, an innate and specially localised disinterestedness of sense or consciousness, in short, a certain immateriality of life, which is what has always been called idealism.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

‘I hope you may, Arthur; but neither the doctor nor I can speak with certainty in such a case; there is internal injury, and it is difficult to know to what extent.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

“I am proud to own it,” cried Sir Clement; “in such a cause, and before such objects, enthusiasm is simply the consequence of not being blind.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Yes, a man can keep his trademark current in such a country, but he can’t sit around and do it; he has got to be on deck and attending to business right along.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Lastly, there is the famous story of the contest in song at Chalcis.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Attic tragedy and dramatic dithyramb presents itself to our view as the common goal of both these impulses, whose mysterious union, after many and long precursory struggles, found its glorious consummation in such a child,—which is at once Antigone and Cassandra.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

His name, a hundred and fifty years after the publication of the Social Contract , is still a controversial watchword and a party cry.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I can see no light neither now, and yet I am certain I saw a candle burning but a moment before.—Well!
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Even now, although he knew that the observation of an anxious mother was much more likely to be correct in such a case than his own, and although she reminded him of many little circumstances which, taken together, were certainly susceptible of the construction she triumphantly put upon them, he was not quite convinced but that they arose from mere good-natured thoughtless gallantry, which would have dictated the same conduct towards any other girl who was young and pleasing.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

CHAPTER I. SYMBOLS AND CELLS.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

If to that of the nobility, they might be esteemed inherent in that form of government, since the nobility are the true supports of monarchy; and it is natural their interest should be more consulted in such a constitution, than that of the people.
— from Essays by David Hume

On the addition of a ferment, a portion of the starch is converted into sugar and carbonic acid gas, and the latter causes the gluten to expand into the little cells, or vesicles, which confer upon baked bread its light, spongy texture.
— from The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

At the time of the treaty with the Earl of Selkirk, certain Indians signed as Chiefs and representatives of their people.
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

iv. section 3), regards as ridiculous the old classification of judgments into simple and compound, and thinks that the procedure in such a case is exactly as if one should wish to divide horses into single horses and teams of horses; otherwise the same argument would hold good against the classification of conceptions into simple and compound.
— from The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong by Franz Brentano

Hurried footsteps sounded in the silent street, and looking up the passage of the Anchor Close I saw a company of men quickly passing.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton

And I thought, as I looked around, if Mrs. Bemby could impart such a cool, clean look to every thing by her short residence in the house, what must her little home be up on the hill, under those great shady poplars.
— from Sea-gift: A Novel by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller