In this conflict of arguments, it is not surprising that the theoretical question as to the Freedom of the Will is still differently decided by thinkers of repute; and I do not myself wish at present to pronounce any decision on it.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I' vidi ben si` com'ei ricoperse lo cominciar con l'altro che poi venne, che fur parole a le prime diverse; ma nondimen paura il suo dir dienne, perch'io traeva
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

At last, about one o’clock, she come to my side of the bed, and drew my curtaine open, and with the tongs red hot at the ends, made as if she did design to pinch me with them, at which, in dismay, I rose up, and with a few words she laid them down; and did by little and, little, very sillily, let all the discourse fall; and about two, but with much seeming difficulty, come to bed, and there lay well all night, and long in bed talking together, with much pleasure, it being, I know, nothing but her doubt of my going out yesterday, without telling her of my going, which did vex her, poor wretch!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But he was most fowly deceived, as all they are and shall be that put their trust in such dark drowsye dreames of hipocrites.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Paulus Jovius on the other side, disallowing tench, approves of it; so doth Dubravius in his Books of Fishponds.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Quid enim diversius esse putandum est, Aut magis inter se disjunctum discrepitansque, Quam, mortale quod est, immortali atque perenni Junctum, in concilio, svas tolerare procellas?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Aktivposten illiquid assets schwerbeschädigt disabled Schwerbeschädigter disabled person schwerfällig; ungeschickt clumsy Schwergut heavy cargo Schwerindustrie heavy industry Schwerkraftförderung drop delivery Schwesterngesellschaft affiliated company schwierig; schwer heavy Schwierigkeit einer Arbeit heaviness Schwierigkeiten difficulties Schwierigkeiten; die sich ergeben aus difficulties arising from schwimmendes Hotel flotel Schwindel humbug Schwindelbank bogus bank Schwindelfirma bogus firm schwindelhaft bogus schwindeln; Schwindel swindle schwindend; Schwund dwindling schwindendes Vertrauen declining confidence Schwindler confidence man Schwindler impostor schwingen; schwanken oscillate Schwingung; Schwankung oscillation schwitzen sweat schwunghafter Handel in flourishing trade in Seefracht maritime freight Seefracht ocean freight Seefrachtbrief liner waybill Seefrachtbrief sea waybill Seefrachtführer; Reederei ocean carrier Seehafenspediteur shipping agent
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

"But, I say, Dad: do you mean you won't come up at all?" "I don't know," said Archer slowly.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

What is the difference between slamming a door viciously and saying d——" "Miss Oliver dear," interrupted Susan, desperately determined to save Gertrude from herself, if human power could do it, "you are all tired out and unstrung—and no wonder, teaching those obstreperous youngsters all day and coming home to bad war news.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“Still them Ellis Island snoozers detains d' Petersens a week just d' same.
— from Sandburrs by Alfred Henry Lewis

I sat down, determined not to go, and he pushed me nearly into the fire.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

She dropped the black shawl that enveloped her, and, in so doing, disordered her hair, which fell in white, straggling locks about her withered features, and her dark eyes gleamed maliciously as she fixed them on the assembled party.
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

the revision has been conducted with the utmost care, while the judicious impartiality with which editors have treated matters on which opinion is still divided, deserves our warmest acknowledgment.
— from Mr. Murray's List of New and Recent Publications July, 1890 by John Murray (Firm)

Wegen is not so intellectual, but there is something dangerous, discomposing in intellect--and now even a chemist he would dissolve us into every variety of element; he would throw our characters into retorts, our advantages and failings into the scales, and once we are dismembered, what are we then?
— from Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. II. (of III) by Rudolf von Gottschall

It was nineteen hundred and thirty-four miles to the Dalles, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven miles to the Cascades, two thousand and twenty miles to Fort Vancouver, and twenty-one hundred and thirty-four miles to the mouth of the Columbia; though the trail proper terminated at Fort Vancouver—the same post, as we shall see, for which the hero Jedediah Smith headed when he was in such dire distress, in the mountains of southwest Oregon.
— from The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone—Crockett—Carson by Emerson Hough

There was, indeed, something doubly dramatic in the Bouquetière's disdain of the drama.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

If sin does disorder the conscience, it disordered Adam’s: and if he begat children in his own moral likeness, then his posterity had a similar conscience.
— from Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk