Yet the cosmological idea extends the connexion of the conditioned with its condition (whether the connexion is mathematical or dynamical) so far, that experience never can keep up with it.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
I thought I had seen a great one even now,' cried Kim.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling
He stopped in the village at the priest’s house in front of which stood the commander in chief’s carriage, and he sat down on the bench at the gate awaiting his Serene Highness, as everyone now called Kutúzov.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
The play of Ennius, however, on the same subject, was a version of a tragedy of Euripides, now chiefly known from the ridicule cast on it in the fifth act of Aristophanes’ Feasts of Ceres .
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop
O. N. vill + Eng., Norse cat , kat .
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom
Therese raised her eyes, and looked fearlessly into his eyes "No, Count Kinsky, I am not afraid, nor would I fear, if you had come to kill me."
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
True, sir, but I need a broker, ergo, no crafty knave.
— from Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson
He felt, should he return to England, nothing could keep him from Theodora.
— from Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story by Elinor Glyn
"Mbutu know eyes, nose, coat, kiboko, all berrah much."
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang
“You try swimmee, cappen, no good without weapon; we both go togedder—muss take gun, sumpitan, kliss, else no chance killee mias.”
— from The Castaways by Mayne Reid
my dear Dr. Cambray, I am sure she likes him—and yet she could not be so cheerful in his absence, if she were much in love—I defy her; and it is impossible that he can be as much in love with her as I am, else nothing could keep him from her.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth
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