But the word, to intend, which Newton and others before him employ in this sense, is now so completely appropriated to another meaning, that I could not use it without ambiguity: while to paraphrase the sense, as by render intense, would often break up the sentence and destroy that harmony of the position of the words with the logical position of the thoughts, which is a beauty in all composition, and more especially desirable in a close philosophical investigation.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

LESSON XLIII, § 245 animal, animâlis (-ium 1 ) , n., animal avis, avis (-ium) , f., bird (aviation) caedês, caedis (-ium) , f., slaughter calcar, calcâris (-ium), n., spur cîvis, cîvis (-ium) , m. and f., citizen (civic) cliêns, clientis (-ium) , m., retainer, dependent (client) fînis, fînis (-ium) , m., end, limit (final); plur., country, territory hostis, hostis (-ium) , m. and f., enemy in war (hostile).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

“This is no savage country, my friend.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

An alternating current is not so convenient for some purposes as a continuous current.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

He is neither so complicated nor so full of riddles.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Grief is attended with enviousness ( invidentia )—I use that word for instruction’s sake, though it is not so common; because envy ( invidia ) takes in not only the person who envies, but the person, too, who is envied—emulation, detraction, pity, vexation, mourning, sadness, tribulation, sorrow, lamentation, solicitude, disquiet of mind, pain, despair, and many other similar feelings are so too.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

These means of transport are sometimes called accidental, but this is not strictly correct: the currents of the sea are not accidental, nor is the direction of prevalent gales of wind.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

But projection is not specially created for the purpose of defence, it also comes into being where there are no conflicts.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

"Yes, did I not?" she continued.
— from The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert by Gustave Aimard

[117] On the contrary, according to Nicole: “Common sense is not so common a quality as one thinks....
— from Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet

Sir George Mivart, the noted English naturalist, voiced a self-evident fact when he said: “Of all the functions of the body that of respiration is the most conspicuously necessary for the maintenance of life,” but while it is understood by all thinking animals that they must breathe in order that they may live, it is not so clearly evident to man that he must breathe correctly in order that pure vocal tones may be produced and expressive speech formed.
— from How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking by Edwin Gordon Lawrence

"That is not so certain," murmured the Kommerzienrat under his breath.
— from Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch. Two Stories of Jewish Life by Ulrich Frank

But it now seems clear that no young private member, without means or influence, ever caused such active disquietude.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

It seems scarcely open to doubt that the oval forms are the older, though what their age may be is not so clear, nor have any descriptions of their contents been published which would enable us to form distinct opinion on the subject.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

In those seas the water is not so cold as in our northern climes, so that men can remain in it for a great length of time without much injury.
— from Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

[265] Several such verses, inscribed on the glasses of the Kit Cat Club, are given in Nichols' "Select Collection of Poems," v. 168-178.
— from The Tatler, Volume 1 by Steele, Richard, Sir