The inside of the buildings in this lower court stood upon great pillars of chalcedony stone and porphyry marble made archways after a goodly antique fashion.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fix'd opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly , etc., and I adopted, instead of them, I conceive, I apprehend , or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or it so appears to me at present .
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Between those two termini of observation, we find the more distinctively mental aspects of the entire thought-cycle: ( i ) inference, the suggestion of an explanation or solution; and ( ii ) reasoning, the development of the bearings and implications of the suggestion.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

A term used by the Druids to designate the circumambulation around the sacred cairns, and is derived from two words signifying "on the right of the sun," because the circumambulation was always in imitation of the course of the sun, with the right hand next to the cairn or altar.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Giovanni, then, delivered his finished in four years, having divided this work into five scenes from the life of Jesus Christ, and having made therein, besides this, a Universal Judgment, with the greatest diligence that he knew, in order to equal or perchance to surpass the one of Orvieto, then so greatly renowned.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

As an instrument of research, I have used it in order to ascertain, for instance, the ideas about the nature of magical power.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Every time that we are in the presence of a type [1310] of thought or action which is imposed uniformly upon particular wills or intelligences, this pressure exercised over the individual betrays the intervention of the group.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

We will only add to this very cursory notice that M. de l'Aubepine's productions, if the reader chance to take them in precisely the proper point of view, may amuse a leisure hour as well as those of a brighter man; if otherwise, they can hardly fail to look excessively like nonsense.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Without waiting to see the effect of the first cut, the brutal wretch plied his instrument of torture first on one side of the boy's back, and then on the other, and only stopped at the end of two or three minutes from very weariness.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

For it does not escape these [pg 033] two opposite errors in spite of its identity of subject and object, which is not thinkable, but only “intellectually intuitable,” or to be experienced by a losing of oneself in it.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

In 1684 a curious incident occurred to a man who had gone hunting in a forest.
— from Human Animals by Frank Hamel

So you look for a green one like it on the other side...."
— from D-99: a science-fiction novel by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe

Yet "Salome" is original through the mingling of lust and hatred in the heroine, and by making this extraordinary virgin the chief and centre of the drama Oscar has heightened the interest of the story and bettered Flaubert's design.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 by Frank Harris

[Pg 147] were better than one; as if the tons of garbage in the Sunday issue of the Gotham Gasometer outweighed in any valuable sense the ten or twelve small pages of the Parisian Temps .
— from The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead

Besides, you know, I only told you if you would promise not to tell."
— from Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence

The city folk were said to have visited him in great numbers, and, notwithstanding the priests and bishops all condemned him as an imp of Satan and a follower of witchcraft, many fine people, including some court ladies, continued to go there by stealth in order to take a dangerous, inquisitive peep into the future.
— from When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Charles Major

Spottsylvania is on the ridge dividing these two streams, and where they are but a few miles apart.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5. by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The buckles should come to within six or eight inches of the top of the leaders’ tails, which allows plenty of room for taking up or letting out these reins.
— from Hints on Driving by C. Morley (Charles Lewis William Morley) Knight

(1) The very body is to be redeemed and sanctified, and made an instrument of the new life in Christ.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander

One of the plans was that of appropriating specified funds to specified objects, in which the supposed certainty of the funds was adjusted to the supposed importance of the objects.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress