In this way nature guarantees the coming of perpetual peace, through the natural course of human propensities: not indeed with sufficient certainty to enable us to prophesy the future of this ideal theoretically, but yet clearly enough for practical purposes.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

The first we find is No. 5; and this we tack on, with a †. To get the Conclusion from these, k and k′ must be eliminated, and what remains must be taken as one expression.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

A very good proof of this is the great dispute that has ever been amongst the philosophers, of finding out man’s sovereign good, that continues yet, and will eternally continue, without solution or accord: “Dum abest quod avemus, id exsuperare videtur Caetera; post aliud, quum contigit illud, avemus, Et sitis aequa tenet.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

[and occasions the gnomons to cast no shadows at mid-day].
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

For instance, the crest of the Lane family, which was granted to commemorate the ride of King Charles II. behind Mistress Jane Lane as her servant, in his perilous escape to the coast after the disastrous Battle of Worcester, is blazoned "a strawberry roan horse, couped at the flanks proper, bridled sable, and holding between the feet an Imperial crown also proper."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

As soon as they heard it they set about their twofold labour, some to gather the corpses, and others to bring in wood.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Now, as Harding was not a sportsman, and as, on the other side, Herbert was talking chemistry and natural philosophy, numbers of kangaroos, capybaras, and agouties came within range, which, however, escaped the lad’s gun; the consequence was that the day was already advanced, and the two hunters were in danger of having made a useless excursion, when Herbert, stopping, and uttering a cry of joy, exclaimed,— “Oh, Captain Harding, do you see that tree?” and he pointed to a shrub, rather than a tree, for it was composed of a single stem, covered with a scaly bark, which bore leaves streaked with little parallel veins.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Similar sacred objects, belonging to another Sultan of “Menangcabow” named “Gaggar Allum”(GegarʿAlam), “were a sacred crown from God”; “the cloth sansistah kallah , which weaves itself, and adds one thread yearly of fine pearls, and when that cloth shall be finished the world will be no more”; “the dagger Hangin Cinga (Singa?) which will, at his command, fight of itself”; “the blue champaka flower, which is to be found in no country but his (being yellow elsewhere),” and many others worthy of the Sultan “whose presence bringeth death to all who attempt to approach him without permission,” and of the “Sultan of Indrapore, who has four breasts.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Atrides waved his steel: Deep through his front the weighty falchion fell; The crashing bones before its force gave way; In dust and blood the groaning hero lay: Forced from their ghastly orbs, and spouting gore, The clotted eye-balls tumble on the shore.
— from The Iliad by Homer

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— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

In the eastern provinces of Germany the conditions of life amongst the poor are most unhappy.
— from Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

She donned a double outer dress of dark gray, the color of mourning, tucked up the long skirts of her heavy silk hakama robe, and wrapped the sacred sword in her girdle.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

And it happened [91] in the years afterward, that Jose did go to Coimbra, and that the leader of the students who had stopped at the Almaida farm for brôa and fruits on the August afternoon, was then a teacher at Coimbra.
— from Jose: Our Little Portuguese Cousin by Edith A. (Edith Augusta) Sawyer

By losing their Charter and its representative form of government, the colonists had lost the privilege of taxing themselves.
— from A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c. by William Henry Whitmore

Onward, etc. 4 Crowns and thrones may perish, Kingdoms rise and wane, But the Church of Jesus Constant will remain; Gates of hell can never ’Gainst that Church prevail; We have Christ’s own promise, And that cannot fail.
— from A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors by Episcopal Church. Army and Navy Commission

In some of their plays they were joined by the little boys and they all played in the sand and made mud-pies and had see-saws and swings and they hitched up one another and dogs and goats to carts.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman

Geese, The Christmas, 88 , 206 .
— from The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney