Moreover, the parts (by Prop. ii.) would have nothing in common with their whole, and the whole (by Def. iv. and Prop. x.) could both exist and be conceived without its parts, which everyone will admit to be absurd.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee sleep in the midst of a vast stretch of hill and plain wherein the eye rests upon no pleasant tint, no striking object, no soft picture dreaming in a purple haze or mottled with the shadows of the clouds.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

I would suggest this as a new game to students, one giving another two or three lines drawn in a panel at random, the problem being to make harmonious arrangements by the introduction of others radiating in sympathy.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Yet, describing it afterwards, people said that he looked almost dreamy at the very instant of the operation, “as though he had gone out of his mind,” but that was recalled and reflected upon long afterwards.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But no sooner was he seated on the throne of Romania, than he dismissed the Greek ambassadors with a smile of contempt, declaring, in a pious tone, that, at the day of judgment, he would rather answer for the violation of an oath, than for the surrender of a Mussulman city into the hands of the infidels.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

They whisper likewise that her daughter is a prisoner as well.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

( a ) It is not due in any perceptible degree to the fact, which we have just been examining, that Cordelia through her tragic imperfection contributes something to the conflict and catastrophe; and I drew attention to that imperfection without any view to our present problem.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The man of high descent may love the halls and lands of his inheritance as part of himself: as trophies of his birth and power; his associations with them are associations of pride and wealth and triumph; the poor man’s attachment to the tenements he holds, which strangers have held before, and may to-morrow occupy again, has a worthier root, struck deep into a purer soil.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Dungeons & Dragons is a popular choice.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The Book of Ecclesiastes has been treated like many other things which disgust in a particular manner.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire

“Did Julian ride Snowdrop away this morning, or did I dream it?” asked Pedro, before he was fairly inside the door.
— from Julian Mortimer: A Brave Boy's Struggle for Home and Fortune by Harry Castlemon

“If you ask me, Bickley, I see no particular reason to doubt it at present.
— from When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Aristotle combated this doctrine, denying the separate reality of the Idea, and admitting only a common generic essence, dwelling in and pervading the particulars, but pervading them all equally.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

down,—when the bottom part sunk into patŭlŭ, and the top part remains to this day in a place in the zillah of Beerbhoom, called Voidyŭnathu, which is also the name of this lingŭ, and the river at that place called Khŭrsoo is said to have arisen from the water of Ravŭnŭ.
— from Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings

Leaving the old timbered farmhouse of Dodmore upon our left, we descend into a pleasant vale, cross the Ledwych brook and bear away for Bitterley; following a narrow, unfrequented lane, with Titterstone making a brave show in the direction whither we are bound.
— from Nooks and Corners of Shropshire by H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins

For difficulties in a palace she might be prepared; perhaps even for some privations in a cottage ornee ,—but certainly not for penury in a lodging-house!
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Your department is a power.
— from The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man by Maksim Gorky

We were detained here all the following day by an incessant rain that came [Pg 317] down in a perfect deluge, the streams rising all round us with marvellous rapidity.
— from The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland. by J. H. (James Henry) Kerry-Nicholls