He looked for a moment in despair upon this maiden walled out from sympathy by prejudices and convictions more impassable than all the mere consequences of class.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

As regards the category of community, it may easily be inferred that, as the pure categories of substance and causality are incapable of a definition and explanation sufficient to determine their object without the aid of intuition, the category of reciprocal causality in the relation of substances to each other (commercium) is just as little susceptible thereof.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

He warrants the sounding-board neither breaking nor cracking; when he has finished one, he exposes it in the air to rain, snow, sun, and every kind of devilry, that it may give way, and then inserts slips of wood which he glues in, making it quite strong and solid.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

But they know Congress is not interested in them and that they have no influence with it, and that the Hemp Trust, the Tobacco Trust, and the Sugar Trust, have.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

There was given them a venerable brother of holy and good life and a past master in Holy Writ, a very reverend man, for whom all the townsfolk had a very great and special regard, and they carried him to their house; where, coming to the chamber where Master Ciappelletto lay and seating himself by his side, he began first tenderly to comfort him and after asked him how long it was since he had confessed last; whereto Master Ciappelletto, who had never confessed in his life, answered, 'Father, it hath been my usance to confess every week once at the least and often more; it is true that, since I fell sick, to wit, these eight days past, I have not confessed, such is the annoy that my sickness hath given me.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

it is almost incredeable to assurt the bogs which those animals Can pass through, I prosue'd this gang of Elk through bogs which the wate of a man would Shake for 1/2 an Acre, and maney places I Sunk into the mud and water up to my hips without finding any bottom on the trale of those Elk.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, they saw an island toward the southeast, which Bering, in honor of the day, called St. Lawrence.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Ἐπενδύτης, ου, ὁ, the outer or upper tunic, worn between the inner tunic and the external garments, Jno. 21.7: (ῠ) from Ἐπενδύω, ( ἐπί & ἐνδύω ) f. ύσω, to put on over or in addition to; mid.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Power, whether in the hands of a god or of a man, is always understood to consist in the ability to harm as well as to help.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"While I respect," he wrote, "the tone of piety which the pamphlet displays, I dare not trust myself to put on paper my feelings about the principles contained in it; tending, as they do, in my opinion, to make ship-wreck of Christian faith .
— from The Oxford Movement; Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church

"My one idea is to avoid the Emerald City without going out of our way more than is necessary.
— from The Tin Woodman of Oz A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

It was with the "army of manœuvre," thrown up from Paris in frantic haste by Galliéni, in taxicabs and trucks, that General Foch made the miraculous plunge through the Saxon army at Fère-en-Tardenois, in September, 1914, which saved the first battle of the Marne.
— from Our Army at the Front by Heywood Broun

After reviewing all that had passed in the diet, and after intercalating in their appeal the principal documents that had reference to it, the Protestants ended by saying: "We therefore appeal for ourselves, for our subjects, and for all who receive or who shall hereafter receive the Word of God, from all past, present, or future vexatious measures, to his Imperial Majesty, and to a free and universal assembly of holy Christendom.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

When we have fondly dreamed of Utopia and the Millennium, when we have begun almost to believe that man is not , after all, a tiger half tamed, and that the smell of blood will not wake the savage within him, we are of a sudden startled from the delusive dream, to find the thin mask of civilization rent in twain and thrown contemptuously away.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

In the Statesman's Year Book for 1916 we find the total revenue for this well-governed little colony as follows, given however in pounds sterling, instead of dollars, as in the above table.
— from The Opium Monopoly by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

Therefore, I recited many [173] instances of kindness and generosity shewn by Efrites to mortals, some of which I had gleaned from books, while others I invented then and there, with a ready wit.
— from Sindbad the Sailor, & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by Anonymous

"Then it is true, as the toast of Monsieur l'Abbé indicated, that you also are about to achieve happiness?
— from The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure by Robert Neilson Stephens

When it is for one’s interest that a thing should be, it is so easy to persuade oneself that it is.’
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant