But, lest anything he may have said may become the innocent cause of doubt in their minds, or tend to weaken the effect which his arguments might otherwise produce—he may be allowed to point out those passages which may occasion mistrust or difficulty, although these do not concern the main purpose of the present work.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

There are certainly odd deficiencies in the house, considering the extraordinary evidences of wealth which are round me.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Its aspect was so profoundly lamentable, with such a perfection of grotesque misery and weirdness of macabre detail, as if it were the Cab of Death itself, that Mrs Verloc, with that ready compassion of a woman for a horse (when she is not sitting behind him), exclaimed vaguely: “Poor brute!”
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

As they say happened at Syracuse, when Plato went there, and Dionysius was seized with a furious passion for philosophy, and so great was the concourse of geometricians that they raised up quite a cloud of dust in the palace, but when Plato fell out of favour, and Dionysius gave up philosophy, and went back again headlong to wine and women and trifles and debauchery, then all the court was metamorphosed, as if they all had drunk of Circe's cup, for ignorance and oblivion and silliness reigned rampant.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

But here we meet with a fresh crop of difficulties in the theory of the comic.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

It is through this process of conflict of divergent impulses to act that the individual arrives at decisions—as we say, "makes up his mind."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

When Siwa appears in this character, in the romances of the Indian islanders, he is painted as a powerful, mischievous, and malignant tyrant—a description sufficiently consonant to his character of Destroyer in the Hindu triad”; and, again, “ ywang is a Javanese word used in the same sense as batara ....
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

So out of the dimness of her spotless kitchen she came one day into the pleasant light of May, knowing that before she entered it again, she would have made her mother’s heart as sore as her own.
— from Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

Prof. Hensboro is of the opinion that rust is but an earlier stage of mildew or blight, the one form of parasite being capable of development into the other, and the fructification characteristic of the two supposed genera having been evolved on one and the same individual.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various

The duty imposed upon the Court of Directors is, to originate measures and frame drafts of instructions.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

The Joint Method of Agreement and Difference, therefore, or as I have otherwise called it, the Indirect Method of Difference (because, like the Method of Difference properly so-called, it proceeds by ascertaining how and in what the cases where the phenomenon is present differ from those in which it is absent) is, after the Direct Method of Difference, the most powerful of the remaining instruments of inductive investigation; and in the sciences which depend on pure observation, with little or no aid from experiment, this method, so well exemplified in the speculation on the cause of dew, is the primary resource, so far as direct appeals to experience are concerned.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

He forgot the dread vision of the chair of death in the keen personal shame of the creature she must believe him to be.
— from Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant

If he could only drive in to the utmost the wedge between the two statesmen, if he could only secure the alliance of Lord John, then the suppression or the removal of Lord Palmerston would be almost certain to follow.
— from Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey

28 Necklace, girl's soul in a, xi. 99 sq. Necropolis, ancient, in the Roman forum, ii. 186; near Albano, ii. 201 sq. Neda, River, at Phigalia, cave of Demeter in the ravine of the, viii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

Bad case of diphtheria in town—probably die before morning, unless I get there in time—I would not have come here for any one else.
— from A Tale of a Lonely Parish by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

The medical doctrine of remote and proximate causes of disease in the human body is not altogether inappropriate to my dogma—since disorders which are predestined to send ladies and gentlemen on their travels to the other world, entirely against their inclinations, may frequently be traced to acts which were as entirely within their own option.
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir