The only case in which it might seem, at first sight, as if our proposition were untrue, is the case in which an a priori proposition states that all of one class of particulars belong to some other class, or (what comes to the same thing) that all particulars having some one property also have some other.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

And how did those women meet it? Not by a “struggle for existence” which would result in an everlasting writhing mass of underbred people trying to get ahead of one another—some few on top, temporarily, many constantly crushed out underneath, a hopeless substratum of paupers and degenerates, and no serenity or peace for anyone, no possibility for really noble qualities among the people at large.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Over five dollars in nickles and pennies were taken from the woman’s pockets, and when her story of poverty and hunger was investigated at the family’s home in a Baxter Street tenement, bank-books turned up that showed the Masonis to be regular pauper capitalists, able to draw their check for three thousand dollars, had they been so disposed.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

The lawyers and ecclesiastics of former ages would have spoken of property as a sacred institution.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Not merely because Golden Hall is the ultimate in luxury, but because Mrs. Gilding has a gift for entertaining, including her selection of people, amounting to genius.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

He had been sitting, without knowing it, on the very verge of a small gully, the long grass hiding it from view; and in leaning a little back he had shot over, pie and all.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

"I'm saying that just as I jumped overboard, I heard the men at the helm shout, 'Our propeller and rudder are smashed!' " "Smashed?"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Nicephorus was astonished by the bold and rapid march of the commander of the faithful, who repassed, in the depth of winter, the snows of Mount Taurus: his stratagems of policy and war were exhausted; and the perfidious Greek escaped with three wounds from a field of battle overspread with forty thousand of his subjects.
— 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

Of the young Sir Willoughby, her word was brief; and there was the merit of it on a day when he was hearing from sunrise to the setting of the moon salutes in his honour, songs of praise and Ciceronian eulogy.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

The two vessels employed were mainly manned by English sailors who had served on previous Arctic voyages.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

He repines at the thought of losing that life, the use of which he so often perverts: and though he began to exist but yesterday, thinks the world was made for him, and that he ought to continue to enjoy it for ever.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 27, January 2, 1841 by Various

He watched as the man in the lab coat, without name tag or company insignia, studied his stack of papers attached to the clipboard.
— from Any Coincidence Is Or, The Day Julia & Cecil the Cat Faced a Fate Worse Than Death by Daniel Callahan

It was all the work of an instant, and so quickly and quietly done that our friends in the alley were not aware of our capture until we had secured our prisoner and Lossing had gone to summon Dave.
— from Against Odds: A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch

The vile in heart who want to cover up their guilt with holy smoke of piety are ever loathing drunkard, thief and courtesan.
— from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of The Church Universal by Levi

It is not every man that has strength of purpose and purity of mind.
— from The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders by Edwin H. Porter