Hence our conclusion differed from that given above; for we inferred in the antithesis the actual infinity of the world.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The Peerless was an iron vessel, first constructed in the Clyde in parts, then taken asunder and shipped to Canada, where she was put together again under the eye of her owner, Capt. Dick, at Niagara.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

He went thither in [5] his own coach, priding himself on being the first man who had been to the county house in his own carriage, drawn by two splendid horses.
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

She prepared the iced water which he was in the habit of constantly drinking,—for since his sojourn at the kiosk he had been parched by the most violent fever,—after which she anointed his white beard with perfumed oil, and lighted his chibouque, which he sometimes smoked for hours together, quietly watching the wreaths of vapor that ascended in spiral clouds and gradually melted away in the surrounding atmosphere.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

[2668] Herc. de Saxonia doth ascribe this to the several motions in the animal spirits, their dilation, contraction, confusion, alteration, tenebrosity, hot or cold distemperature, excluding all material humours.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

With a band of followers, attached to his person by common hope or common despair, Justinian fled from the inhospitable shore to the horde of the Chozars, who pitched their tents between the Tanais and Borysthenes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I hear that the House of Commons do think much that they should be forced to huddle over business this morning against the afternoon, for the King to pass their Acts, that he may go out of town.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I presented him with a half-share in my boat, which was the occasion of his often coming down to Hammersmith; and my possession of a half-share in his chambers often took me up to London.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

And those who have this art, I have hitherto been in the habit of calling dialecticians; but God knows whether the name is right or not.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

An example of them will be found in the arms of Page 197 {197} "Struan" Robertson, and in the coats used by all other members of the Robertson Clan having or claiming descent from, or relationship with, the house of Struan.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

A favourite German folk tale tells how Melchior, of Bremen, had his dining-room paved with silver dollars, and even if history or chronicle does not confirm this legend, it is thoroughly in keeping with Hanseatic modes of displaying wealth.
— from The Hansa Towns by Helen Zimmern

Beyond a certain point of hills on clear days he could see smoke rising from the campoodie, and though he knew nothing but his dreams of what went on there, he would not so much as play in that direction.
— from The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Mary Hunter Austin

"The fact of its being hot or cold does not effect my religious ideas."
— from Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories by H. Taprell (Henry Taprell) Dorling

There were no relations in the village; there was no woman neighbor within a mile: it was therefore her obvious Christian duty not only to take charge of the remains, but to conduct such a funeral as the remains would have wished for herself.
— from The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

When it fell loose her hair only came down to her neck.
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

2 In the debate in the House of Commons, Dec. 14, 1793, Mr. Grey is thus reported: "Mr. Grey was not a friend to Paine's doctrines, but he was not to be deterred by a man from acknowledging that he considered the rights of man as the foundation of every government, and those who stood out against those rights as conspirators against the people."
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

Shannon, which he had filled with gold dust, and then, heating a sailor's needle red-hot over his burning wick, he put his own secret marks on those eighteen cases—marks that no eye but his own could detect.
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault

“The Glastonbury Thorn flowered here on Christmas day, 1793.
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

Neere vnto Neiuport he had assembled an armie, ouer the which he had ordained Camillo de Monte to be Camp-master.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Richard Hakluyt