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from experience also requires no

The possibility of synthetical a posteriori judgments, of those which are gathered from experience, also requires no particular explanation; for experience is nothing but a continual synthesis of perceptions.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

fine emotions are really new

These fine emotions are really new; they are altogether musical and unexampled in practical life; they are native to the passing cadence, absolute postures into which it throws the soul.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

felt embarrassed and replied not

I felt embarrassed, and replied not.
— from The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

furor epilepticus and recollect nothing

Could he have committed this offence during another attack of furor epilepticus and recollect nothing about it afterwards?
— from The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

for extent and richness neither

"Upon the road from Kilkenny to Grenaugh, in the vicinity of those beautiful lakes, at the entrance of those parks, to which, for extent and richness, neither England nor Scotland can probably offer any thing equal, we have seen other dwellings.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

flashing eyes and rapid nervous

A reporter of the Pioneer Press interviewed him and has left this description of him as he appeared fresh from the battle at Chicago: He is short and slight and with rather an ordinary appearance, although his frame is wiry and his flashing eyes and rapid, nervous gestures betoken a hidden strength.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

forget everything and resent nothing

I am well assured that, in her present situation, you will forget everything and resent nothing.
— from Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II by Mme. Du Hausset

Few experiments are really necessary

Few experiments are really necessary for the literary creator who seeks to analyse the stuff of which Life is composed in order to dissolve for us all its elements and demonstrate its ever-present underlying essence.
— from The Trial of Oscar Wilde, from the Shorthand Reports by Charles Grolleau

from employing and removing Negroes

Consequently the legislature as early as 1823 attempted to solve the problem by passing a law forbidding masters of vessels and others from employing and removing Negroes out of the State.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

from exhaustion and realized naught

Odalie was, he thought, on the verge of death from exhaustion and realized naught of her surroundings.
— from The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree

fain establish a right Natty

The traveller had been closely examining the wounds during these movements, and now, without heeding the ill-humor of the hunter's manner, he exclaimed: “I would fain establish a right, Natty, to the honor of this death; and surely if the hit in the neck be mine it is enough; for the shot in the heart was unnecessary—what we call an act of supererogation, Leather-Stocking.”
— from The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna by James Fenimore Cooper

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