Again, the 307 concept of a thing as a natural purpose is, no doubt, empirically conditioned, i.e. only possible under certain conditions given in experience, though not to be abstracted therefrom; but it is a concept only possible in accordance with a rational principle in the judgement about the object.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In nomine domini, etc. CHAPTER II.
— from Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Arthur Quiller-Couch

This fact is, no doubt, extremely curious in the history of literature; but there is another fact connected with it which is more than curious, and I wonder that it has never been pointed out before.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

"Come in now, do 'ee come in."
— from The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

As one conscious of his power to consecrate or desecrate, by one look of disdain or one word of praise, he stood; and beginning at the lowest conceivable point, his uttermost notion of want of beauty—his laid ideal , naming one whose image, no doubt, every charitable imagination will here supply, Horace next fixed upon another for his mediocrity point—what he should call “just well enough”— assez bien, assez —just up to the Bellasis motto, “ Bonne et belle assez .”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

The dress is no doubt extremely convenient: it admits of walking in mud or snow, and allows freedom of exercise; and it is entirely modest.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff