As a great number of views do here concur in one event, they fortify and confirm it to the imagination, beget that sentiment which we call belief, and give its object the preference above the contrary event, which is not supported by an equal number of experiments, and recurs not so frequently to the thought in transferring the past to the future.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:— “No, sir.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Certainly, seeing to what an extent a race numerically so unimportant influences the various governments of the world today, the Jew who reflects upon the disparity between his people's numbers and their power may be pardoned if he sees in that fact a proof of their racial superiority.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

[Sidenote: Its authority ethical and religious, not scientific ] Students of the rediscovered Old Testament also recognize, in the light of a broader and more careful study, the fact, so often and so fatally overlooked in the past, that its authority lies not in the field of natural science, nor even of history in the limited sense.
— from The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament by Charles Foster Kent

Egg-plant, cucumbers, &c., all demand space; and so with edible fungi, mushrooms, and truffles, the latter the property of the epicure, and really not so desirable as that fact would indicate.
— from The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Helen Campbell

But it is on the schooner that all eyes are riveted now: she skips along so fast that within an hour her pennant is easily distinguishable—red and white!
— from The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

But the ego alone remained now, stripped of the burden of neurosis, freed from subconscious pressures.
— from A Trace of Memory by Keith Laumer

He evolved a remarkable new sentence in French.
— from The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This must have entailed a rapid natural selection of brains.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

En attendant, rien ne sera plus utile à la cause de la paix que la résolution que vous avez si sagement prise de dire à tous ceux qui vous approchent qu'il faut continuer la guerre.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

“I assure you, sir, I never enjoyed a rounder night's sleep in my life,” replied their guest; “and were it not for the seasonable shelter of your hospitable roof I know not what would have become of me.
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton