No one can ever regard such errors as a defect in my moral character.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

ANT: Deter, disincline, indispose, mispersuade, misinduce, coerce, compel.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

But after a pause and a long glare Josephine would sigh, “Now you've put the doubt into my mind, Con, I'm sure I can't tell myself.”
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

He was deep in meditation, mechanically clicking his rosary.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

You will know, from this description, I must mean Captain Tilney, who, as you may remember, was amazingly disposed to follow and tease me, before you went away.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

But this [Pg 220] contagion, which takes place in every case to a certain degree, is much more complete and more marked when the symbol is something simple, definite and easily representable, while the thing itself, owing to its dimensions, the number of its parts and the complexity of their arrangement, is difficult to hold in the mind.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

All which particulars the reader will be surprised at hearing enumerated; but the fact is, that it was not I who went back to the party, but my late German valet, who was of my size, and, dressed in my mask, could perfectly pass for me.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Do I make myself clear?"
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Meanwhile the fact that occipital destruction in man may cause a blindness which is apparently absolute (no feeling remaining either of light or dark over one half of the field of view), would lead us to suppose that if our lower optical centres, the corpora quadrigemina, and thalami, do have any consciousness, it is at all events a consciousness which does not mix with that which accompanies the cortical activities, and which has nothing to do with our personal Self.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Starting from Paumanok 1 Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California, Or rude in my home in Dakota's woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring, Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess, Far from the clank of crowds intervals passing rapt and happy, Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri, aware of mighty Niagara, Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull, Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze, Having studied the mocking-bird's tones and the flight of the mountain-hawk, And heard at dawn the unrivall'd one, the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Does it make modern capitals stronger, or more self-sacrificing, better fitted to contend with violence, or guard against the follies which undermine a state?
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

Do I make myself completely clear, Major Mauser?"
— from Frigid Fracas by Mack Reynolds

Do I make myself clear?
— from The Preliminaries, and Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer

I think drunkenness is much more common in all the American States than in France.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

In all of these they were accustomed to recite the competency of the Indian, and attached to the deed in each case they usually secured what purported to be the affidavit of two persons that the allottee was an adult Indian of the mixed blood, which affidavits were ordinarily passed with the deed in making mesne conveyances or in recording in the proper county recording office.
— from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 ... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead

When Christ dwells in my heart by faith (Eph 3:17), and the moral law dwells in my members (Col 3:5), the one to keep up peace with God, the other to keep my conversation in a good decorum: then am I right, and not till then.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

“What did he do?” inquired Mr. Maxwell curiously.
— from The Go Ahead Boys in the Island Camp by Ross Kay

He will not extract any oaths or promises or pledges of any kind; he will release you with the assurance that if you will serve him you will be handsomely rewarded, and if you fail him you will be most handsomely killed; do I make myself clear?"
— from The Secret House by Edgar Wallace

He was boring into the wall, only this time he did it much more carefully, and it was evident that if he intended putting anything into this cavity it must be pretty large.
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve