The pious sailing-ship skipper appeared excited and made uneasy movements, as if restraining with difficulty an impulse to stand up and exhort us earnestly to prayer and repentance.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The synthesis of our representations rests upon the imagination; their synthetical unity (which is requisite to a judgement), upon the unity of apperception.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

“Oh, very well, let’s sit down, at all events, for I don’t intend to stand up all day.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The question therefore arises—not whether the egoist should cherish and indulge these sentiments up to a certain point, which all would admit—but whether he can consistently encourage them to grow to such a pitch that they will always prevail over the strongest opposing considerations; or, to put it otherwise, whether prudence requires him to give them the rein and let them carry him whither they will.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Then answered he who came in last, namely Loke: I know the feat of which I am prepared to give proof, that there is no one present who can eat his food faster than I. Then said Utgard-Loke: That is a feat, indeed, if you can keep your word, and you shall try it immediately.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

If it has got to be a habit with me always to write of him in the same unfavourable manner, I must and will break myself of this unworthy tendency, even though the effort should force me to close the pages of my journal till the marriage is over!
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Nay, it looks as if the jealousy of seeing them appear in and enjoy the world when we are about to leave it, rendered us more niggardly and stingy towards them; it vexes us that they tread upon our heels, as if to solicit us to go out; if this were to be feared, since the order of things will have it so that they cannot, to speak the truth, be nor live, but at the expense of our being and life, we should never meddle with being fathers at all.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I took shelter under the portal of a church, and turned my fine overcoat inside out, so as not to look like an abbe.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[1046] Likewise, the religious life and the profane life cannot coexist in the same unit of time.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

A Chilote Indian, who has gathered up the spittle of an enemy, will put it in a potato, and hang the potato in the smoke, uttering certain spells as he does so in the belief that his foe will waste away as the potato dries in the smoke.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

And she would tell them such lovely stories of all she saw in the strange upper world, where there was nothing to swim in.
— from Two in a Zoo by Oliver Herford

What beauty in the swelling upland green, On which the fleecy flock in sportive play, And mirth, and gambol innocent, are seen.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 476, February 12, 1831 by Various

The English philosophy of experience and the Continental philosophy of à priori spiritualism, after their brief convergence in the metaphysics of Berkeley, parted company once more, the empirical tradition being henceforth represented, not only by Hume, but in a more or less anti-Christian and much more superficial form by Voltaire, Rousseau, and the French Encyclopædists; while the Leibnizian philosophy was systematised and taught in Germany by Wolf, and a dull but useful sort of modernised Aristotelianism was set up under the name of "common sense" by Thomas Reid (1710-1796) and his school in the Scottish Universities.
— from History of Modern Philosophy by Alfred William Benn

It wouldn't surprise me if they stopped us at the entrance to Ausone and took your horse and cart."
— from The Girl Philippa by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The heat represented by this difference in temperature has passed into the steam used, thus adding to the energy supplied by the combustion
— from Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172 by B. S. (Beverly S.) Randolph

If this Nature has rendered existence insupportable, to some unfortunate beings, whom she appears to have selected for her victims, still death, is a door that will surely be opened to them—that will deliver them from their misfortunes, although in their puny, imbecile, wayward judgment, they may be deemed impossible of cure.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

Just the same, Mike Slade, a product manager at Microsoft, says: “There are times when you can illustrate trends successfully using overlapping bar charts—with bars of different colors or patterns.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

It is, however, exceedingly difficult to judge another in p. 278 this matter, or, indeed, to set up any precise and universal standard by which to form a judgment in the case.
— from The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A. Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West by John Armstrong