For I ask you, quite apart from other reasons, whether any man, woman or child, with a sense for realities, ought not to be ashamed to plead such principles as either dignity or imputability.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

That was the great maxim by virtue of which we were asked, if not to refrain from conceiving nature at all, which was perhaps impossible at so late a stage in human development, at least to refrain from regarding our necessary thoughts on nature as true or rational.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And if they find any person sick of the infection, to give order to the constable that the house be shut up; and if the constable shall be found remiss or negligent, to give present notice thereof to the alderman of the ward.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

The buxom female shook her head with a compassionate and sympathising air; and, appealing to Sam, inquired whether his father really ought not to make an effort to keep up, and not give way to that lowness of spirits.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

"I kin understand just how she feels," remarked old Nell to Natalie, with her apologetic little smile.
— from Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest by Hulbert Footner

Only one woman can have the right to be that, and you will give her the right when you marry her.... Your family really ought not to marry."
— from The Wages of Virtue by Percival Christopher Wren

Behind these were the Upper and the Lower City, crowded with thousands of houses, packed, every one of them, with human beings who had fled hither for refuge, or, notwithstanding the dangers of the time, to celebrate the Passover.
— from Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

There are notable speed records in the handling of fast freight, records of notable trains that are as well known among the traffic specialists as the Limiteds are known to the outside world.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

Twice a day the single narrow street which connected the neat brick and frame respectability of New Town with the picturesque adobe squalor of Old Town was filled by a curiously varied crowd.
— from The Blood of the Conquerors by Harvey Fergusson

His place as regularly accredited Minister to the British Court was taken by Pinkney, through whom were conducted the subsequent important discussions, which arose from the marked extension given immediately afterwards by France and Great Britain to their several policies for the forcible restriction of neutral trade.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

We have seen how many abbés fought in the freethought ranks, or near them.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson