[pg 184] which is a separate matter), and in rare cases the generatio æquivoca .
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

and she has made that go a little further than it really can go.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

SOLENI, captain IVAN ROMANOVITCH CHEBUTIKIN, army doctor (60) ALEXEY PETROVITCH FEDOTIK, sub-lieutenant VLADIMIR CARLOVITCH RODE, sub-lieutenant FERAPONT, door-keeper at local council offices, an old man ANFISA, nurse (80)
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The head of the family, Count Ilyá Rostóv, continually drove about the city collecting the current rumors from all sides and gave superficial and hasty orders at home about the preparations for their departure.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

underniman 4 to take in, receive, comprehend, understand , Æ: blame, be indignant at : take upon oneself , Æ: steal , Lcd .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

his hunters killed one deer which the party with the aid of the Indians readily consumed in the course of the evening.—after there departure this morning I had all the stores and baggage of every discription opened and aired.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

She turned everything out and began quickly repacking, deciding that the inferior Russian carpets and unnecessary crockery should not be taken at all.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The examination and consideration of everything that exists in space or time—whether it is a quantum or not, in how far the particular something (which fills space or time) is a primary substratum, or a mere determination of some other existence, whether it relates to anything else—either as cause or effect, whether its existence is isolated or in reciprocal connection with and dependence upon others, the possibility of this existence, its reality and necessity or opposites—all these form part of the cognition of reason on the ground of conceptions, and this cognition is termed philosophical.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

His attack is really concerned also with the theory of Hobbes, which in some respects resembles, as we shall see, this first view; but, in form at least, it is directed against this form of contract.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Take again another head, still more full of sentiment, but of a different kind, a little drawing in red chalk which every one remembers who has examined at all carefully the drawings by old masters at the Louvre.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

"But where shall I run, Cudjo? into the barn?"
— from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES ARE INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER, CONNECTED WITH WHOM VARIOUS PLEASANT MATTERS ARE RELATED, APPERTAINING TO THIS HISTORY ‘Where’s Oliver?’ said the Jew, rising with a menacing look.
— from Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens

CALF'S BRAINS FRIED Clean as described in calf's brains cooked sour; wipe dry, roll in rolled cracker flour, season with salt and pepper and fry as you would cutlets.
— from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

The consciousness possessed by an agent about to perform an act, that he is at liberty to perform it or not, is really conclusive evidence that the act is free.
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

It followed the track of a swollen mountain torrent, which had its rise in the melting snows of the summit, and tumbled in roaring cascades down a narrow, dark, precipitous ravine.
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.7% (2005) country comparison to the world: 13 Market value of publicly traded shares: $NA Agriculture - products: vanilla, ylang-ylang (perfume essence), coffee, copra, fish, livestock Industries: newly created lobster and shrimp industry, construction Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - production: NA kWh Electricity - consumption: 139.2 million kWh (2005) country comparison to the world: 184 Exports: $6.5 million (2005) country comparison to the world: 212 Exports - commodities: ylang-ylang (perfume essence), vanilla, copra, coconuts, coffee, cinnamon Imports: $341 million (2005) country comparison to the world: 190 Imports - commodities: food, machinery and equipment, transportation equipment, metals, chemicals Debt - external: $NA Exchange rates: euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.6734 (2008 est.), 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004) Communications ::Mayotte Telephones - main lines in use: 10,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 205 Telephones - mobile cellular: 48,100 (2005) country comparison to the world: 195 Telephone system: general assessment: small system administered by French Department of Posts and Telecommunications domestic: NA international: country code - 262; microwave radio relay and HF radiotelephone communications to Comoros Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 (2001) Television broadcast stations: 3 (2001) Internet country code: .yt Internet hosts: 1 (2009) country comparison to the world: 229 Transportation ::Mayotte Airports: 1 (2009) country comparison to the world: 220 Airports - with paved runways: total: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2009) Ports and terminals: Dzaoudzi Military ::Mayotte Manpower fit for military service: males age 16-49: 35,849 females age 16-49: 34,456 (2009 est.)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I did not know, except that wondrous as she was, it remained clear that she claimed a great deal more power than she possessed.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

For souls that wander to and fro in the waste of the world's illusion resemble chips tossing aimlessly up and down on the heaving waves of time, driving about at random they know not how or where, under a night that has no moon, in an ocean without a shore: for whom the very quarters of heaven are lost in an undistinguishable identity, and even distance and proximity are but words without a sense.
— from A Syrup of the Bees by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

I do not think, now that I reflect calmly, that this determination was prompted by any feeling of jealousy, but rather by a strong desire to discover the truth regarding her connection with the Quai d’Orsay.
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux