All sensuous phenomena may be contingent, and consequently possess only an empirically conditioned existence, and yet there may also exist a non-empirical condition of the whole series, or, in other words, a necessary being.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Their process consists in bringing the volatilized caffeol in contact with a petrolatum, or absorbing medium, where it is held until needed for combination with the evaporated coffee extract.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Men cannot persuade themselves that a Deity and infinity should lie within so narrow a compass as the dimensions of a human body; that omnipotence, omnipresence should ever be wrapped in swaddling clothes, and debased to the homely usages of a stable and a manger; that the glorious Artificer of the whole universe, who spread out the heaven like a curtain, and laid the foundations of the earth, could ever turn carpenter, and exercise an inglorious trade in a little cell.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

—Pero haré notar que en cambio esa falda está favorecida por los vientos contraalisios que soplan en dirección contraria.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

du mensuel en cours est consultable gratuitement pendant les deux semaines suivant sa parution.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Ἐκδαπανάω, ῶ, ( ἐκ & δαπανάω ) f. ήσω, to expend, consume, exhaust, 2 Co. 12.15.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

explanation &c (interpretation) 522; lesson, lecture, sermon; apologue[obs3], parable; discourse, prolection[obs3], preachment; chalk talk; Chautauqua [U.S.]. exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar, three R's, initiation, A.B.C. &c (beginning) 66. elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education; propaedeutics[obs3], moral tuition.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He is a member of all the Russian and of three foreign universities, et cetera, et cetera.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The main source, on the contrary, is in every case evil; and, what is more (though this seems to have been little noticed), it is in almost every case evil in the fullest sense, not mere imperfection
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

To do so we need consider, however, only the ordinary factors of the daily life; the extraordinary conditions, etc., are generally superfluous.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I now claim your obedience to my will in this case. 'My own darling Marie, I can hardly bring myself to think I am so near as a month to the moment when you will be mine, and no power on earth can ever part us again.
— from Under St Paul's: A Romance by Richard Dowling

By Henry Hartwell, James Blair & Edward Chilton. Edited with an introd.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

This was the 17th Armoured Car Battalion, organized into two companies of eight cars each.
— from The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Monash, John, Sir

Hence his personal wants being too few and too easily supplied to give him any serious thought, the Egyptian sauntered through life on the whole contentedly enough, while the Englishman was ever ceaselessly engaged in a struggle for the bare necessaries of life; and it was as natural, therefore, for the Egyptian to accept with passive acquiescence the submission taught him by his guides, as it was inevitable that the Englishman should criticise or ignore that preached to him.
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne

He'll climb up my leg, he will, an' waller in my lap, An' poke his little black paws 'way in my pockets where They's beechnuts, er chinkypins, er any little scrap Of anything, 'at's good to eat—an' he don't care!
— from Riley Child-Rhymes by James Whitcomb Riley

Tea always had an exquisitely cheering effect upon him.
— from Under St Paul's: A Romance by Richard Dowling

Una tarde, que es mañana , pues el Alva se riò , y entre carmin encendido, candidas perlas mostró.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

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— from Ruth Erskine's Crosses by Pansy