5. Define ( a ) syllogism; ( b ) rebuttal; ( c ) "begging the question;" ( d ) premise; ( e ) rejoinder; ( f ) sur-rejoinder; ( g ) dilemma; ( h ) induction; ( i ) deduction; ( j ) a priori ; ( k ) a posteriori ; ( l ) inference.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Could he not see the lawyer was deliberately humiliating him and had no other purpose today than to show off his power to K., and perhaps even thereby subjugate K.?
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

I'm frank and open; considering all things, it was very kind of you to allude to the circumstance—very kind and polite.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

'"Nay—but thou errest, Lancelot: never yet Could all of true and noble in knight and man Twine round one sin, whatever it might be, With such a closeness, but apart there grew, Save that he were the swine thou spakest of, Some root of knighthood and pure nobleness; Whereto see thou, that it may bear its flower. '"And spake I not too truly, O my knights?
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The senses of children are especially keen and properly developed.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I do not know any particular reason, but I have always been glad.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Agamemnon commands Achilles; Achilles is my lord; I am Patroclus’ knower; and Patroclus is a fool.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Then thus: 'The lot of man the gods dispose; These ills are past: now hear thy future woes O prince attend; some favouring power be kind, And print the important story on thy mind!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Some of the women, called Killekyāta, are professional tattooers.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

As it grows, it resembles in every particular the ascidian larva, with which, indeed, Kowalewsky and Professor Ray Lankester have demonstrated its essential identity.
— from The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen

As for me, I believe in coming out with the truth about the clergy and laymen, and King and peasant, alike, whether it be Cain or King David, or Parson Downs or his Majesty King Charles the Second.
— from The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Bellshaw went down on his knees and pressed the boards with both hands.
— from The Sweep Winner by Nat Gould

Also, I complain of his depriving you of the character of [Greek: iegeus], which indeed I am rather inclined to claim for myself, as "He hath made us kings and priests" ([Greek: hiegeis]).
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Societies of the Iowa, Kansa, and Ponca Indians.
— from The Whale House of the Chilkat by George Thornton Emmons

Beside the dish which they are kneading and protecting are two Necrophori; a couple, no more.
— from The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean-Henri Fabre

[4] Plumptre writes the word Koheleth, and Perowne Quoheleth.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox