At the same time, while I cannot cognize, I can quite well think freedom, that is to say, my representation of it involves at least no contradiction, if we bear in mind the critical distinction of the two modes of representation (the sensible and the intellectual) and the consequent limitation of the conceptions of the pure understanding and of the principles which flow from them.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

I can quite imagine anyone substantially agreeing with my view of woman as universalist and autocrat in a limited area; and still thinking that she would be none the worse for a ballot paper.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Oh that the first meeting were over!-or that I could quit Bristol without seeing him!-inexpressibly do I dread an interview!
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Quam cum Sicyonem attulisset, adhibuit sibi in consilium quindecim principes, cum quibus causas cognovit et eorum, qui aliena tenebant, et eorum, qui sua amiserant, perfecitque aestimandis possessionibus, ut persuaderet aliis, ut pecuniam accipere mallent, possessionibus cederent, aliis, ut commodius putarent numerari sibi, quod tanti esset, quam suum recuperare.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I can quite understand it.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him;—he says that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
— from The Republic by Plato

[1828] And which he observed of the markets of old Rome, Qui perjurum convenire vult hominem, mitto in Comitium; Qui mendacem et gloriosum, apud Cluasinae sacrum; Dites, damnosos maritos, sub basilica quaerito, &c. Perjured knaves, knights of the post, liars, crackers, bad husbands, &c. keep their several stations; they do still, and always did in every commonwealth. SUBSECT.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Worthier Noblemen were not in France nor in Europe than those two: but the Time is crooked, quick-shifting, perverse; what straightest course will lead to any goal, in it?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

It is my duty to attend to your interests with a cool head, and I can quite understand that to your excited feelings I may appear, at such times as the present, insensible.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I wonder if I could QUITE forget and begin to drop my H'S and not remember that Henry the Eighth had six wives.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Quakers regarded him as Antichrist pursuing them into close quarters.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

I don't mean firing off your rifle at a distant crowd, I mean in close quarters...?"
— from Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Jews tend to live in certain quarters of the city confined to themselves, and the Italians have their quarters also.
— from Men and Things by Henry A. Atkinson

“I can quite see that there are plenty of ways of working the swindle.”
— from Jacob's Ladder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

I have met in certain quarters the remark that I "am slippery, and evade the question."
— from Select Speeches of Kossuth by Lajos Kossuth

If, however, the humidity of the surrounding air is sufficiently 351 high, or its temperature sufficiently low, to check evaporation, the water will collect on the surface of the plant in liquid form, and may ultimately trickle to the ground in considerable quantities.
— from Meteorology: The Science of the Atmosphere by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

" The tendency of his mind, however, was in direct opposition to that of Davy's, for he insisted upon the materiality of heat, and was the first to conceive the bold idea of its being capable, like any other substance, of entering into chemical combination with various bodies, and of thus losing its characteristic qualities.
— from The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ayrton Paris

"An interesting collection ... quite worth adding to one's library of the marvellous and mysterious."— T.P.S. Book Notes.
— from Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell

The Caesarians were on their guard against this, and by deploying their ranks always managed to face those assailing them, and when they came into close quarters with them readily laid hold of both men and horses in the contest; light-armed infantry had, in fact, been drawn up with their cavalry for this very purpose.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

In the collection of Coppers may be noticed Yellow Copper ore with Opal (from Roskeir); the triple Sulphuret of Antimony, Copper, and Lead in [205] various forms; Ruby Copper in cubes; Quartz containing globules of water; the Hydrargyllite or Wavellite , in a plumose form accompanied by Apatite in a matrix of Quartz (from Saint Stephen's), Topazes of considerable lustre (from Saint Agnes), Green Fluor in crystals of twenty-four sides (Saint Agnes).
— from A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall by John Ayrton Paris