Countrymen, butchers, drovers, hawkers, boys, thieves, idlers, and vagabonds of every low grade, were mingled together in a mass; the whistling of drovers, the barking dogs, the bellowing and plunging of the oxen, the bleating of sheep, the grunting and squeaking of pigs, the cries of hawkers, the shouts, oaths, and quarrelling on all sides; the ringing of bells and roar of voices, that issued from every public-house; the crowding, pushing, driving, beating, whooping and yelling; the hideous and discordant dim that resounded from every corner of the market; and the unwashed, unshaven, squalid, and dirty figures constantly running to and fro, and bursting in and out of the throng; rendered it a stunning and bewildering scene, which quite confounded the senses.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

532-558; fifth edition, pp. 560-586; and “Critique of Practical Reason,” fourth edition, pp. 169-179; Rosenkranz's edition, pp.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

↑ 175 I cannot find either ping , ning , or biling in the dictionaries, and the only chance perhaps of finding out the meaning will be to collate the rhymes used for this game in other States.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Their relation must be studied, and only when we can account for every psychic process with which we have to concern ourselves, is our duty properly fulfilled.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

However, as the purposive reference, together with its law, is determined a priori in ourselves and therefore can be cognised as necessary, this internal conformity to law requires no intelligent cause external to us; any more than we need look to a highest Understanding as the source of the purposiveness (for every possible exercise of art) that we find in the geometrical properties of figures.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

For as sympathy makes us take a concern in whatever men feel, so this affection prompts us to copy whatever they do; and consequently we have a pleasure in imitating, and in whatever belongs to imitation merely as it is such, without any intervention of the reasoning faculty, but solely from our natural constitution, which Providence has framed in such a manner as to find either pleasure or delight, according to the nature of the object, in whatever regards the purposes of our being.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

His face expressed profound consternation.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The bishops of the East were directed to meet at Seleucia, in Isauria; while those of the West held their deliberations at Rimini, on the coast of the Hadriatic; and instead of two or three deputies from each province, the whole episcopal body was ordered to march.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

... Morality, the Circe of mankind, has falsified everything psychological, root and branch—it has demoralised everything, even to the terribly nonsensical point of calling love "unselfish."
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

That evening, with the newspapers spread over my table, we discussed the affair and examined it from every point of view with that exasperation that a person feels when walking in the dark and finding himself constantly falling over the same obstacles.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

It is observed by Mr. Coleman, of the Royal Powder Mills of Waltham abbey, that it is not exactly ascertained, whether there is any one proportion, which ought always to be adhered to, and for every purpose.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

for each person, or 3 and 1/6 oz. daily.
— from Landholding in England by Fisher, Joseph, F.R.H.S.

" "That might be M. Fouquet's case when he had two wealthy and clever friends who amassed money for him, and wrung it from every possible or impossible source; but those friends are dead.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

The only path by which men can go down that gorge clings to the eastern face of the abyss and is for ever plunged in shadow.
— from On Something by Hilaire Belloc

Pure reason requires us to seek for every predicate of a thing its proper subject, and for this subject, which is itself necessarily nothing but a predicate, its subject, and so on indefinitely (or as far as we can reach).
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

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— from The Flying Machine Boys in the Wilds; Or, The Mystery of the Andes by Frank Walton

Her pathetic blindness, lovely face and form, and sweet young voice attracted sympathy from each passer-by.
— from Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon

And the Sons of the Gael used to be coming no less than the Men of Dea to hear them from every part of Ireland, for there never was any music or any delight, heard in Ireland to compare with that music of the swans.
— from Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People by Hamilton Wright Mabie