I never think of returning them.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

In this view, which is natural to our reason, though inexplicable, we can also justify some judgements which we passed with all conscientiousness, and which yet at first sight seem quite opposed to all equity.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

This is not the occasion referred to in III, 13 ( v. note, ad loc. ).
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

It is not the only reputation that has been acquired as easily, nor are such fortunate circumstances confined to partridge-shooting.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

And now, my dear Sir, I am totally at a loss what I ought to do; the more I reflect, the more sensible I am of the utter impropriety, nay, treachery, of revealing the story, and publishing the misfortunes and poverty of Mr. Macartney; who has an undoubted right to my secrecy and discretion, and whose letter charges me to regard his communication as sacred.-And yet, the appearance of mystery,-perhaps something worse, which this affair must have to Lord Orville,-his seriousness,-and the promise I have made him, are inducements scarce to be resisted for trusting him with the openness he has reason to expect from me.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

But the resistance R indicated on pages 23 and 24 is not the only resistance to propulsion.
— from Flying Machines Today by William D. (William Duane) Ennis

Behind us is north, to our right, the west and to our left the east."
— from Bob Hunt in Canada by George W. Orton

I was so convinced that the bladders were with the leaves that I never thought of removing the moss, and this was very stupid of me.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

Our Press is never tired of repeating that the neutrals have a right to think only of their own interest and to frame their policy in strict accordance with that, whether it draws [189] them towards the Allies or the Teuton camp.
— from England and Germany by Emile Joseph Dillon

The custom introduced in Europe, in 1884, of paying subsidies to the beet-root cultivator, proved ruinous to the islanders, and interest on capital is now the only return to be looked for.
— from The Philippine Islands by Ramon Reyes Lala

The advantages of chromium over iodine-131, which has also been used, are that smaller doses are required, and that there is no transfer of radioactivity to the fetal circulation.
— from Radioisotopes in Medicine by Earl W. Phelan

In penetrating ground lacking the firmness or cohesion to support itself above an opening, the miner’s chief concern is not that of removing the material, but of preventing its collapse into his excavation.
— from Tunnel Engineering: A Museum Treatment by Robert M. Vogel

N.B.—It is added "that the above rules are of course open to alteration according to circumstances, and the diet varied successfully by the introduction of fowls, either roast or boiled—the latter preferred;" and "it must never be lost sight of that sharp work, regularity, and cleanliness are the chief if not the only rules to be followed to produce thorough good condition."
— from American Football by Walter Camp

There is no tinge of regret, there is no tear of sorrow.
— from Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

Even now, with hunger staring wolf-eyed at them, there was no desire to return to Ithaca, no thought of renewing their life in the squatter's settlement; for, unknown to themselves, they were being swept on by a common destiny.
— from From the Valley of the Missing by Grace Miller White