The seen thing is regarded as in some way the ground or basis of belief in the suggested thing; it possesses the quality of evidence .
— from How We Think by John Dewey

The mountains draw together within a few cubits, and Alexander then builds up the gorge and closes it with gates of brass or iron.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Moreover, this choice of expression is not set forth in any printed guide or book on English, though it is followed in all literature.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

sulhgang m. the land which can be gone over by one plough in a day , W 170 37 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

"Nature doeth everything for her own gain and profit, can do nothing as a free favour, but hopeth to attain something as good or better, or some praise or favour for her benefits; and she loveth that her own deeds and gifts should be highly valued; but Grace seeketh nothing temporal, nor requireth any other gift of reward than God alone; neither longeth she for more of temporal necessities than such as may suffice for the attaining of eternal life.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Hopeless to win by war, to pray’rs we fall, And on th’ offended Harpies humbly call, And whether gods or birds obscene they were, Our vows for pardon and for peace prefer.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Thereafter, nourished in the same house, on the same kinds of food, where they would have also the same kinds of air, the same locality, the same quality of water,—which, according to the testimony of medical science, have a very great influence, good or bad, on the condition of bodily health,—and where they would also be accustomed to the same kinds of exercise, they would have bodily constitutions so similar that they would be similarly affected with sickness at the same time and by the same causes.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It must be assumed that these circumlocutive expressions are chosen, either because of the desire to make an assertion general, or because of the desire for some mnemonic aid.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The proposition, “I think,” expresses an undetermined empirical intuition, that perception (proving consequently that sensation, which must belong to sensibility, lies at the foundation of this proposition); but it precedes experience, whose province it is to determine an object of perception by means of the categories in relation to time; and existence in this proposition is not a category, as it does not apply to an undetermined given object, but only to one of which we have a conception, and about which we wish to know whether it does or does not exist, out of, and apart from this conception.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The theory worked not only in the direction of this mechanical isolation, which tended to reduce instruction to a kind of physical gymnastic of the sense-organs (good like any gymnastic of bodily organs, but not more so), but also to the neglect of thinking.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

So the minister came from Elmwood, and being unable to say much that was good or bad of "the woman who had departed from this vale of tears," he confined his remarks to generalities and made them as brief as possible.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

All his life he had not planted one tree in his own garden, nor grown one blade of grass; and living among the living, he had not saved one fly; he had done nothing but destroy and ruin, and lie, lie. . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Occasionally would come a sudden big push by one side or the other in which artillery was massed until hub touched hub and infantry swept to glory and death in waves of gray, or blue or khaki as the case might be.
— from History of the World War, Vol. 3 by Richard Joseph Beamish

This time he found himself a place, and succeeded in getting on board one of the Volga steamboats as a scullion.
— from Maxim Gorki by Hans Ostwald

When I came to a very uninteresting part she would propose a game of ball or a scamper with Flossy; but all the same next day we would be back at it again.
— from Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Whatever he had been in his youth he was not that now, or at least his earlier rawness had long since been glazed over by other experiences.
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

F o láta di uẻnt o , a gust, a gaile or berrie of winde.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

The second German offensive began on April 9 and was again directed against the British, this time farther to the north, in Flanders, between the cities of Ypres [Pg 144] and Arras.
— from A School History of the Great War by Charles Augustin Coulomb

Lightning was much observed in augury, and was a good or bad omen, according to the circumstances attending it.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone