Once more the faintness returned—his mind roved—but, recovering, he resumed: "But it is Babo here to whom, under God, I owe not only my own preservation, but likewise to him, chiefly, the merit is due, of pacifying his more ignorant brethren, when at intervals tempted to murmurings."
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

The demonstrative pronoun (and pronominal adjective) meaning "this" is formed by using with tiu (56) the word ĉi , which expresses the general idea of nearness or proximity.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

He was in doubt whether to go in or not, or whether to communicate with Alexey Alexandrovitch.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And so I sat there in my room in the darkness waiting until all was quiet in the house, and I could steal into your room and search, if I could get in through either door or window; and then, whether I got in or not, or whether the search was successful or not, I meant to wait until the drug had worn itself off sufficiently to enable me to arouse you, and tell you to get away.
— from From Now On by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

The Library of Congress now furnishes cards in duplicate to a large number of [137] centers, thus saving time to the investigator and giving information often not otherwise obtainable.
— from Euthenics, the science of controllable environment A plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency by Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta) Richards

The fourth Gospel is original not only in its contents but its form.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Revelation by William Milligan

The term /individuality/ is also open to objections, be- cause an individual may be one of a series, one of many, 117:3 as an individual man, an individual horse; whereas God is /One/, - not one of a series, but one alone and without an equal.
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

This publicity, and this mode of attending the decision with its grounds, is observed not only in the tribunals where the Judges preside in a judicial capacity, individually or collectively, but where they are consulted by the Peers on the law in all writs of error brought from below.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Starting from the general rule of the great influence of nutrition on variability, it may be assumed that those seeds will give most doubles, that are best fed.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

do inuocate and call vpon the diuell, with whom they do ordinarily talke (euen as we do cal vpon God in our neede): of him they doo demande what way and order they might take to cleere themselues thereof, as they did in the presence of frier Pedro de Alfaro, of the order of Saint Francis, in the yeare of our Lorde 1580, at such [49] time as he came from China, as may be seene in his relation.
— from The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 1 (of 2) by Juan González de Mendoza

Hence Augustine commenting on Ps. 70:18, "O God, who is like Thee?" says: "He who desires to be of himself, even as God is of no one, wishes wickedly to be like God.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

252.png 249 As you might happen to think me tedious if I were to be more particular, I chuse to pass over many things in Silence, and shall only say a Word or two of the Character of the English People: I thought Englishmen were much the same in their own Country as the French are out of France , that is to say, haughty, scornful, and such as think nothing good enough; and in like manner they are when abroad, what the French are in their own Country, good-natur’d, civil and affable: Of all Nations I found the Italians were most esteem’d in England , the French and Germans being in some Degree hated: But their Hatred to the Germans is of no older Date than the Reign of the Elector of Hanover ; for till then the English look’d upon us as if they neither lov’d nor envy’d us, but now they have a Notion, that the Money of England goes over to Germany ; and seem to think, that we had no Coin, till they call’d the House of Hanover to govern them [30] .
— from The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von