I can easily conceive such a result," repeated Mr. Farebrother, emphatically.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates, I cannot.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

They, too, are made in combinations employing cylindrical separators, shaking sieves, and repassing pulpers, for completing the pulping of all unpulped or partially pulped cherries.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“I am glad of it, for I can easily conceive she must be an enterprising girl; I shall like to see her much.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

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— from The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various

The pay of the sepoys of the regular army of the Punjaub is higher than that of the same class in the army of the East India Company, each common soldier receiving ten rupees per mensem.
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood

“Here, Mr Brooke,” I cried excitedly; “Ching says we had better take one of these boats lying moored out here, and the pirates won’t think of it being us.
— from Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser by George Manville Fenn

Far away to the south-west could be seen the outer Lofoten Islands, a mass of tangled mountain forms, in colour every conceivable shade of atmospheric blue and purple, whilst beyond lay the calm glittering ocean, and far, far away the last and loneliest of the Lofoten, the island of Röst.
— from Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges by Norman Collie

Quæ , si iteru m inventa in Balliuâ suâ inveniatur, capiatur; et coram seneschallo inhibea n tur ei hospitia Regis et Reginæ et liberoru m suorum, ne iteru m ingrediatur, &c. And so afterwarde shewethe what shall be done to those women , yf they be founde agayne in the Kinges courte, in suche sorte, that, as by Tillius, this 59 Rex Ribaldorum his auctorytye was over homines perditos, mulieres puellasq ue perditas.
— from Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by Francis Thynne

As all stages of social development, from the stone age up, are yet to be found in contemporaneously existing communities, so in the same country and in the same city are to be found, side by side, groups which show similar diversities.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

I could enjoy common seasickness and think it was a picnic, but this salt water sickness takes the cake.
— from Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck