This regress cannot, therefore, be called a regressus in indefinitum, as happened in the case of the preceding cosmological idea, the regress in which proceeded from the conditioned to the conditions not given contemporaneously and along with it, but discoverable only through the empirical regress.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

No sooner were the doors opened than the Emperor ran in with outstretched arms crying, “God be praised, Who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work.
— from The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker

There were rusty red blotches around inflamed nail-holes in the swollen wood, as of punctures in living flesh; along the entablature and cornices and in the dank gutters decay had taken the form of a mild deliquescence; and the pillars were spotted as if Nature had dropped over the too early ruin a few unclean tears.
— from Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte

The carriage broke down, owing to the execrable roads, mere deep rough country lanes, and had it not been for the postilions I must have been left by the wayside.
— from The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes

Duke John William had four sisters, but only the claims of the descendants of the two eldest really counted.
— from Anglo-Dutch Rivalry During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century being the Ford lectures delivered at Oxford in 1910 by George Edmundson

“A union, formed without a refined and generous affection for its basis, must be devoid of those tender endearments, reciprocal attentions, and engaging sympathies, which are peculiarly necessary to alleviate the cares, dispel the sorrows, and soften the pains of life.
— from The Boarding School; Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils Consisting of Information, Instruction and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Form the Character of Young Ladies. To Which Is Added, a Collection of Letters, Written by the Pupils to Their Instructress, Their Friends, and Each Other. by Hannah Webster Foster

In the later days of the Turkish Empire Roman Catholic missions brought education to these Christians; and the Roman Church allowed such portions of these old national churches as could be brought to submit to papal supremacy, to retain their own hierarchy, and their ancient services, expurgated to some extent.
— from The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

The Gazette had no wide circulation except among those in the service, but its dicta , owing to the established reputation of Russell and to the specialist nature of the paper, were naturally quite readily accepted and repeated in the ordinary press.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

In face of the superhuman efforts made by the German and Austrian agents the diplomacy of the Triple Entente remained inactive.
— from How the Nations Waged War A companion volume to "How the War Began" by J. M. (John McFarland) Kennedy