He had come to the conclusion that it was somewhere indoors: so he worked out all the cubic space of the house, and made measurements everywhere, so that not one inch should be unaccounted for.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is reasonable to suppose that the words first made use of by mankind had a much more extensive signification than those used in languages already formed, and that ignorant as they were of the division of discourse into its constituent parts, they at first gave every single word the sense of a whole proposition.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

New York, 1907. (9) Hubert, H., and Mauss, M. "Essai sur la nature et
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The term piaculum has the advantage that while it suggests the idea of expiation, it also has a much more extended signification.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Amoretti has also made many errors (see Stanley’s First Voyage , pp. 62, 63).
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

His replies, however, are merely more explicit statements of the distinction which he had already developed in the first edition between the transcendental and the empirical self, and that distinction in turn was doubtless itself largely determined by his own independent recognition of the untenability of his early view of the transcendental object.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

Sir Francis, in spite of his long friendship with Lord Champernoun, had avoided Modbury Manor ever since the arrival there of Jasper Oglander, giving as his reason the excuse that he was extremely busy in the work of making new fortifications on St. Nicholas Island.
— from The Golden Galleon Being a Narrative of the Adventures of Master Gilbert Oglander, and of how, in the Year 1591, he fought under the gallant Sir Richard Grenville in the Great Sea-fight off Flores, on board her Majesty's Ship the Revenge by Robert Leighton

The word, agora , which is translated “the market,” has a much more extensive signification than the English word.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

It is to be observed, in explaining the ancient names of animals, that at first they had a much more extensive signification, and one must endeavour to conjecture what the animals comprehended under them had in common with each other, according to the ideas of the ancients.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

Yet hath another moche more experience Some cast out wordes in paynted eloquence Thynkynge therby to be reputed wyse Thoughe they haue neyther wysdome nor science Suche maner folys them self do exercyse A plughe and teame craftely to deuyse To ere the path that folys erst hath made The trouth vnder glose of suche is hyd and layde For why, they trust alway to theyr owne mynde And furour begon whether it be good or yll As if any other, no wyser read coude fynde
— from The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brant

“Was he a methodical man?” “Eminently so,” replied Nasmyth, wondering where the question led.
— from The Long Portage by Harold Bindloss

It never has, and he has respected himself and me more ever since.”
— from The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Christianity has a much more extended scale of colours than they have.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

Nothing has afforded me more entire satisfaction, than the coincidence of your judgment with mine, in the opinion of the essential importance of our commerce, and the absolute necessity of a maritime defence.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress