Let them first discuss a more simple question, namely, the operations of body and of brute unintelligent matter; and try whether they can there form any idea of causation and necessity, except that of a constant conjunction of objects, and subsequent inference of the mind from one to another.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Apparently satisfied with his inspection, he coughed twice or thrice, and made as many efforts to open a conversation; but the girl heeded him no more than if he had been made of stone.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Of late years the apex of the long triangle of Noman's land that for a great while lay desolate between the original and subsequent lines of Yonge Street, has been happily utilized by the erection thereon of a Church, Christ Church, an object well seen in the ascent and descent of the street.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

This last relation may be represented as that between the extreme terms of a continuous proportion, which has government as its mean proportional.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And Cicero has seen them fight in parties, with fists, feet, and teeth, till they have fainted and sunk down, rather than confess themselves overcome: [“Custom could never conquer nature; she is ever invincible; but we have infected the mind with shadows, delights, negligence, sloth; we have grown effeminate through opinions and corrupt morality.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Thus, for example, he can make with composure deliberate preparations for his own death, he can dissemble past finding out, and can carry his secret with him to the grave; lastly, he has an actual choice between several motives; for only in the abstract can such motives, present together in consciousness, afford the knowledge with regard to themselves, that the one excludes the other, and can thus measure themselves against each other with reference to their power over the will.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

In Sinaketa, such rules are very few; no fixed sequence is observed in the sailing order of the canoes, anyone of them can start first, and if one of them is swifter it may pass any of the others, even that of a chief.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

One of many traditions concerning them is to the effect that on a certain day they meet [ Pg 376] and come down to Sais’s Ford to dance, and after their revel is over return home and resume their places.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

But Mr. Holbrook did not reappear, nor had Ellen any tidings for her evening visitor; though she thought of little else than Marian, and never let a day pass without making some small effort to obtain a clue to that mystery which now seemed so hopeless.
— from Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

We each took out a cigar and lighted a match; and then looked across at the other.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

[19] In a despatch to Earl Bathurst, Colonial Secretary in 1822, Governor Maitland said: [20] "It is proposed to establish one introductory school on the national plan in each town of a certain size.
— from Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold (John Harold) Putman

"If, instead of talking in this violent and unreasonable manner, you would produce the 'Bayan,' of which ever since I came to Persia I have been vainly endeavouring to obtain a copy."
— from Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson

"Spend years teachin' 'em manners an' sacrifice myself to stay at home and punish 'em when I might be jantin' 'round myself, not to have 'em turn out a credit to me."
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

Would it be possible, provided that the tube were long enough, to obtain a complete inversion, in which the entire series of the males should occupy the narrow gallery at the back and the entire series of the females the roomy gallery in front?
— from The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Jean-Henri Fabre

Chemist Haines had subjected the stained chips from the floor of the cottage to four experiments, three of a chemical nature and the fourth with a microscope, and the result furnished indubitable proof that the stains were those of blood, while Microscopist Tolman, by other tests, was equally well satisfied that the blood had come from a human body.
— from The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

Even the officers and chaplain took an interest in it.
— from The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Grace Livingston Hill