“I want a smoke, Jane, or a pinch of snuff, to comfort me under all this, ‘pour me donner une contenance,’ as Adèle would say; and unfortunately I have neither my cigar-case, nor my snuff-box.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

During her abode in the Convent, She had been well known to Virginia: But her emaciated form, her features altered by affliction, her death universally credited, and her overgrown and matted hair which hung over her face and bosom in disorder at first had prevented her being recollected.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

There are dominating members and others which are subordinate to the first; species and their distinctive properties depend upon classes and the attributes which characterize them; again, the different species of a single class are conceived as all placed on the same level in regard to each other.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Regal powers and military commands, nobility of birth and political office, wealth and influence, and their opposites [119] depend upon chance and are, therefore, controlled by circumstances.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was a thousand pities then, said the corporal, casting his eye upon Dunkirk, and the mole, as Servius Sulpicius, in returning out of Asia (when he sailed from Ægina towards Megara ), did upon Corinth and Pyreus —— —“ It was a thousand pities, an’ please your honour, to destroy these works——and a thousand pities to have let them stood.”—— ——Thou art right, Trim, in both cases; said my uncle Toby.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

"Don't shout like that!", called out K., unable to prevent himself, and, as he looked anxiously in the direction from which the servitor would come, he gave Franz a shove, not hard, but hard enough for him to fall down unconscious, clawing at the ground with his hands by reflex; he still did not avoid being hit; the rod still found him on the floor; the tip of the rod swang regularly up and down while he rolled to and fro under its blows.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

The distinction is not intrinsic but is dependent upon conditions, and upon conditions which can be regulated.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

By this time other workmen had drawn up chairs, and were ready now with modest contributions from their own experience.
— from Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

Its success entirely depends upon circumstances, and in this case it was certain, so intimate was Cerizet’s knowledge of the characters and hopes of those concerned.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

All freight is now landed by means of lighters, a process which is an awkward drawback upon commerce, and what makes it still more aggravating is that it seems to be an entirely needless one.
— from Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou

It would not even need that she should turn back the pages of history to the chapters written by Tacitus: that she should recite the incredible horrors of despotism under Caligula and Domitian, Caracalla and Commodus, Vitellius and Maximin.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Women are paid while learning, the time for which depends upon capacity and taste.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

In doing so, we shall be simply delineating Unitarian Christianity, according to our conception of it;—expounding it, not as a barren negation, but as a scheme of positive religion; exhibiting both its characteristic faiths, and something of the modes of thought by which they are reached.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

[1793], for convenience in carrying and to keep them from tangling, by tying them into slip knots, as follows: All the strings being straightened out and laid parallel to each other, they are doubled in a bight, with the end under the standing part, the bight of the end passed through the preceding bight, which is drawn up close, and so on, usually five or six times, till the strings are sufficiently shortened.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch

They learn our languages, invade our colleges, absorb our ideas and our methods, [Pg 63] and passing from France to Germany and England, draw useful comparisons as to the results obtained.
— from South America To-day A Study of Conditions, Social, Political and Commercial in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil by Georges Clemenceau