This quantity of the world, which is determined in either way, should therefore exist in the world itself apart from all experience.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

At my happy age, she found ready to her hand one who could respond to her every desire in every way, so happily does nature second youth and health that she never found me wanting, when called on.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

CHAPTER IX — PHOEBE R——, AND OUR SECOND MOVING “She died in early womanhood, Sweet scion of a stem so rude; A child of Nature, free from art, With candid brow and open heart; The flowers she loved now gently wave Above her low and nameless grave.”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I always say that nothing is to be done in education without steady and regular instruction, and nobody but a governess can give it.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Moreover those things which are done in earnest, we say, are better than things merely ludicrous and joined with amusement: and we say that the Working of the better part, or the better man, is more earnest; and the Working of the better is at once better and more capable of Happiness.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The man he really dreaded in earnest was Svidrigaïlov....
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Envy, foul-mouthed, delighting in evil, with scowling face, will go along with wretched men one and all.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Peters stood drinking in every word spoken by the Duke; whilst Pym listened as if heartbroken, but in an impatient, anxious way, indicative of a restless impulse to be gone.
— from A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake

"Let it be observed, that in your sex manly exercises are never graceful; that in them a tone and figure, as well as an air and deportment, of the masculine kind, are always forbidding; and that men of sensibility desire in every woman soft features, and a flowing voice, a form not robust, and demeanour delicate and gentle."
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

And we have genuine satisfaction in thinking that the most beautiful set of diamonds in existence will serve to adorn the greatest and best of queens.
— from The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series by Rafael Sabatini

Mr. Upton answered decidedly "in effect," which seemed to Reding to mean no real presence at all.
— from Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

The fine pointed doorway is enriched with sculptured mouldings of beautiful design, into which at the top is introduced the heraldic device of the House, the Camel couched in a basket, emblematic of the patience and the far journeyings of the Bonromei , the Good Pilgrims.
— from The Story of Milan by Ella Noyes

The girl had not lain down, but remained with her eyes fixed on the visitor, drinking in every word she uttered.
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

By this name was designated a piece of ground hardly fifteen dessyatins in extent, which, sparsely covered with proud, century-old oaks, slowly slanted down towards the strand of a little river.
— from The Duel by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

The difference in effect was striking.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish by Charles Morris