Now since this distance causes no perception different from what a blind man receives from his eyes, or what is conveyed to us in the darkest night, it must partake of the same properties: And as blindness and darkness afford us no ideas of extension, it is impossible that the dark and undistinguishable distance betwixt two bodies can ever produce that idea.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

whether or not I was properly dressed? After a few minutes of inquietude: “Yes,” replied I, with an intrepidity which perhaps proceeded more from the impossibility of retracting than the force of all my reasoning, “I am in my place, because I am going to see my own piece performed, to which I have been invited, for which reason only I am come here; and after all, no person has a greater right than I have to reap the fruit of my labor and talents; I am dressed as usual, neither better nor worse; and if I once begin to subject myself to public opinion, I shall shortly become a slave to it in everything.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This list, wi' my ain hand I wrote it, The day and date as under noted; Then know all ye whom it concerns, Subscripsi huic, Robert Burns.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Disappointed and uneasy, Nicholas could touch no food, so, after he had seen Smike comfortably established at the table, he walked out (despite a great many dissuasions uttered by Mr. Crowl with his mouth full), and left Smike to detain Newman in case he returned first.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

In this case you must draw an uneven number of threads through the squares, otherwise the crossing of the threads will be irregular in the last square.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

At the moment when I blew the candle out, the sitting-room door opened, and I saw——” “You saw?” “You.” “Dressed as usual?” “No.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

And as to him that is sick of an ague, all things are distasteful and unpleasant, non ex cibi vitio saith Plutarch, not in the meat, but in our taste: so many things are offensive to us, not of themselves, but out of our corrupt judgment, jealousy, suspicion, and the like: we pull these mischiefs upon our own heads.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This was the same youth who had come to West Point so ignorant that when I asked him, “If a general officer should have a horse shot under him on the field of battle, what ought he to do?” answered up naively and said: “Get up and brush himself.”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

There was the selfish man, only intent upon serving himself, and fearing there would not enough come to his share to satisfy his wants; then there was old churlish Nabal away by himself building a fire for his own especial benefit, and which “no man dare approach unto,” no, not within baking, broiling, or roasting distance, not even to get a coal to kindle one for himself.
— from Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) Edmonds

Read it out," and he thrust the torn paper across to Barnabas, who, taking it up, read as follows:— —felicitate you upon your marriage with the lovely heiress, Lady M., failing which I beg most humbly to remind you, my dear Sir Mortimer Carnaby, that the sixty thousand pounds must be paid back on the day agreed upon, namely July 16, Your humble, obedient Servant, JASPER GAUNT.
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

Rosenmüller’s Das Alte und Neue Morgenland , II., 92 f. 219 .
— from The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

Beschriebung des Alten und Neuen Grenland, nebist einem begrift der Reisen die Frobisher, &c. Nuremberg, 1679.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

All that the government had to do in order to ease matters was to draw an unlimited number of I
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

when they've done nothing but develop an unlimited number of them ever since the war began."
— from Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870 by Various

Although a native of Alsace, the latter spoke an unintelligible dialect, and understood no French.
— from The Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic A Tale of The French Revolution by Eugène Sue

He had no difficulty about utterance now; the words flowed in a torrent.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

She was dressed all up now in a pale blue dress, some sort of soft silk, and she had on all her diamonds, for she was shining all over.
— from The Man Next Door by Emerson Hough

But I soon give up that notion for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she’d sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn’t, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they’d make Jim feel it all the time, and so he’d feel ornery and disgraced.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain