Thus the certainty of our knowledge of our own experiences does not have to be limited in any way to allow for exceptional cases.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint, out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element; at odds with, at variance with.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The Germans admit all these Crimes As in the case of other kinds of outrage, so in that of the actions which we have just enumerated we are in possession of some admissions which have come from the Germans themselves.
— from German Barbarism: A Neutral's Indictment by Léon Maccas

Thus perception is said to be the cause of our knowledge of objects, since it is the immediate source of such knowledge.
— from Thought-Culture; Or, Practical Mental Training by William Walker Atkinson

Many have imagined like him, that even a temporary triumph over England would lead to some new settlement between the two countries, concessions of one kind or other, laws revoked and repealed, and confiscations withdrawn; nor were the expectations, perhaps, altogether unfounded.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

Under the general term Sculpture —the root of which is to be found in the Latin verb sculpo , “I cut”—have been classed copper-plate engraving, wood engraving, gem engraving, and carving, as well as the art of the statuary or figure-cutter in marble, to which art the word sculpture is now more strictly applied, each of those arts requiring in its process the act of cutting of one kind or other.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

There was, of course, plenty of work in the way of picket duty and endless drilling, and no lack of fun in the camp of one kind or other; but of all this we gradually wearied, and began to long for something new.
— from The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy by Henry Martyn Kieffer

When one reads the life of Cowper, or of Keats, or of Lucretia and Margaret Davidson,—of so many gentle, sweet natures, born to weakness, and mostly dying before their time,—one cannot help thinking that the human race dies out singing, like the swan in the old story.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

And if we said anything, he'd most likely make us give our names, or take us to some station-master or somebody, and [140] then there'd be no chance of our keeping out of a lot of bother.'
— from Peterkin by Mrs. Molesworth

Let it be examined by the most fastidious, and the complete identity cannot be got rid of, even to the blue skin, the shrivelled fingers , the cold tongue , the change in voice , and the suppression of urine , considered in some of the descriptions to be found in the pamphlet issued by the Board of Health, as so characteristic of the "Indian" cholera; and this, too, under a "constitution of the atmosphere" so remarkably disposed to favour the production of cholera of one kind or other, that Dr. Gooch, were he alive, or any close reasoner like him, must be satisfied, that were this remarkable form of the disease communicable, no circumstance was absent which can at all be considered essential to its propagation.
— from Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by J. (James) Gillkrest