And the Pyrrhonians make no other use of their arguments and their reason than to ruin the appearance of experience; and ‘tis a wonder how far the suppleness of our reason has followed them in this design of controverting the evidence of effects; for they affirm that we do not move, that we do not speak, and that there is neither weight nor heat, with the same force of argument that we affirm the most likely things.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In it Mount Otai collapsed, the earth beneath it sank until it became a vast lake, all the inhabitants were destroyed, and the woodcutter alone made his escape.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is one of his best contributions to English philology.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

How Hermes openly confessed the error of his forefathers, the coming destruction of which he nevertheless bewailed.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

"The life of Lahiri Mahasaya set an example which changed the erroneous notion that yoga is a mysterious practice.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

I saw I should have no small family to provide for; and then, to conclude the evening, Phil, Tim, and I, had a bottle of usquebaugh, the taste of which I had remembered for eleven good years, and did not part except with the warmest terms of fellowship, and until the sun had been some time in the sky.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

William Gray, dean of York, consecrated bishop of London, who founded a college at Thele in Hartfordshire, for a master and four canons, and made it a cell to Elsing spittle in London; it had of old time been a college, decayed, and therefore newly-founded.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

He continued to engage in earnest studies and to make it known to his friends and acquaintances that he had found Him of whom Moses and the prophets wrote, even the Messiah.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Elsewhere, so singular a form of architecture would have been looked upon as something utterly unnatural and monstrous; but in Egypt, where every species of deception, and what we should now call stage effect, was resorted to in all buildings, and particularly in such as were intended for religious purposes, it was by no means calculated to excite astonishment.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 2, August 1852 by Various

Nothing catches the eye more quickly, or looks more slovenly, than the ends of the traces sticking out a foot beyond the keepers, or a belly-band strap dangling loose underneath the horse.
— from Hints on Driving by C. Morley (Charles Lewis William Morley) Knight

It was quite true, of course, that everyone was very busy, and that such an allegation as reason for regret might very likely be true, but she had begun to be vaguely uneasy that it was not going to be reserved for her to declare her sympathies and show an adoring England how intensely pro-English she was, but that her English friends were proceeding to demonstrate their own sympathies by omitting to flock to her biddings.
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Why did” Page 104, ‘Lelia’ changed to ‘Leila,’ “commented Leila with” Page 104, second ‘stars.”’ struck, “consult the stars.”” Page 105, ‘exhuberent’ changed to ‘exuberant,’ “of exuberant raillery” Page 107, ‘grippng’ changed to ‘gripping,’ “girl a gripping handshake” Page 108, ‘volumious’ changed to ‘voluminous,’ “with a voluminous white” Page 109, ‘threatend’ changed to ‘threatened,’ “he threatened with smiles” Page 111, opening double quote struck before ‘Santa,’ “Santa Claus’s eight reindeer” Page 111, ‘therby’ changed to ‘thereby,’ “times, thereby giving” Page 115, ‘intrduction’ changed to ‘introduction,’ “was her introduction to” Page 115, ‘pardner’ changed to ‘partner,’ “Seabrooke as a partner” Page 116, ‘pardner’ changed to ‘partner,’ “Marjorie’s partner chanced” Page 120, ‘you, merry’ changed to ‘you merry,’ “God rest you merry,” Page 121, comma changed to full stop following ‘Susanna,’ “N’est ce pas, Miss Susanna.”
— from Marjorie Dean at Hamilton Arms by Josephine Chase

He could not wait till morning to see his work with a fresh eye, an eye as fresh as Mrs. Hawthorne’s, and satisfy himself as to whether he, so careful of truth, had unconsciously come to exaggerating, falsifying his impressions, grown guilty of hollow mannerisms.
— from Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

All thing = with the verb singular—kept here chiefly to express all , the whole of things related to each other, though often, as in the original, meaning simply every, each .
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

We make use of the sensation which the light stimulates in the mechanism of the optic nerve to construct representations concerning the existence, form, and condition of external objects.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

This petition was received, and a bill was brought into parliament for vesting the honours of John Duke of Atholl in James Murray, Esq., commonly called Lord James Murray; and, as a reward of his steady loyalty, a law was passed, enacting that the act of attainder against William Marquis of Tullibardine should not be construed to extend to Lord James Murray or his issue.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

It was cut through a three-foot wall of chalk, the embrasure being about five feet in span, and three feet deep at the crown of the arch.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore