At that time, artifacts in categories of rocket propulsion, guided missiles, and space-flight programs were placed under curatorial control of the Astronautics Department.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

On the contrary; one house of Parliament has been irremediably degraded into the decaying position of a mere court of registry, possessing great privileges, on condition that it never exercises them; while the other chamber that, at the first blush, and to the superficial, exhibits symptoms of almost unnatural vitality, engrossing in its orbit all the business of the country, assumes on a more studious inspection somewhat of the character of a select vestry, fulfilling municipal rather than imperial offices, and beleaguered by critical and clamorous millions, who cannot comprehend why a privileged and exclusive senate is required to perform functions which immediately concern all, which most personally comprehend, and which many in their civic spheres believe they could accomplish in a manner not less satisfactory, though certainly less ostentatious.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

By mere conceptions I cannot think anything external, without, at the same time, thinking something internal, for the reason that conceptions of relations presuppose given things, and without these are impossible.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

A pleasant home of culture and artistic beauty, a circle of refined people gathered about him, the evil and want and woe of the world shut carefully out by silken curtains and plate-glass.
— from Hope Mills; Or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda M. Douglas

The town and castle of Ruthyn possessed great interest for me from being connected with the affairs of Owen Glendower.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

It ought to go on maintaining its manufacturing plants capable of rapid production, giving national assistance to the la in out of airways, equipping itself with a moderate number of planes and keeping an air force trained to the highest efficiency.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Calvin Coolidge

Five minutes later the boy heard the "chug-chug" of a motor boat, and a small craft of racing pattern glided up to the bank.
— from Plotting in Pirate Seas by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

In the conquest of Russian Poland, Germany had improved her lot somewhat, for the fertile fields had immediately been planted and a good crop had been reaped.
— from The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

"Chance, or rather Providence, George," answered Sir Henry dejectedly, "must direct us.
— from The Mysterious Wanderer; Vol. II by Sophia Reeve

It is by a continuous or rather periodical growth of this kind, reassumed season after season, that large masses of sponge are formed.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

The Northern department was concerned with the charge of Russia, Prussia, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Poland, and Saxony; the Southern department looked after France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey, {192} and the States along the southern shore of the Mediterranean.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy