There was no human being whom she wanted near her except Robert; and she even realized that the day would come when he, too, and the thought of him would melt out of her existence, leaving her alone.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

"I will draw it for you," and, sitting down, he wrote out a document as follows:— "To the Honourable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the District of Montreal: "The petition of François Xavier LeCour de Lincy, Esquire, residing at St. Elphège, respectfully shews:—That when he contracted marriage with Mademoiselle Lanier, he knew not that he was of noble origin, having left Europe at a very early age with scarcely any knowledge of his family; that since then he has learned of his extraction and obtained his titles of noblesse which he now presents to your Honours in evidence.
— from The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall

Nevertheless, he had ever refused, and should ever refuse to listen to offers by which only his own personal interests were secured.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

The phrase “Law of Nature,” or Natural Right 154 , in use for the philosophy of law involves the ambiguity that it may mean either right as something existing ready-formed in nature, or right as governed by the nature of things, i.e. by the notion.
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel