At which Mr. Charles Bates laughed uproariously; very much to the amazement of Oliver, who saw nothing to laugh at, in anything that had passed.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

If I had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humour his men with the imputation of being near their master; if to his men, I would curry with Master Shallow that no man could better command his servants.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

‘Division between us!’ cried I. ‘Child, child!’ said my aunt, smoothing her dress, ‘how soon it might come between us, or how unhappy I might make our Little Blossom, if I meddled in anything, a prophet couldn’t say.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

moon, S, S2, S3, P; a lunation, P; moyne , Cath., B; moyn , B. Comb.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

As to the tincture of opium (commonly called laudanum) that might certainly intoxicate if a man could bear to take enough of it; but why? Because it contains so much proof spirit, and not because it contains so much opium.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

On the general philosophy of Inhibition the reader may consult Brunton's 'Pharmakology and Therapeutics,' p. 154 ff., and also 'Nature,' vol. 27, p. 419 ff.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

You MUST come back.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Yet things would be worse without this education, and mankind cannot be made by halves.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then by geometry, as MN is to MA , so is MA to MB' ; whence the height of the mountain, MN , can be determined.
— from Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

98 Standards by which Morality can be Appraised--Con- flict between Different Moralities--The Correct Standard of Morality--Moral Psychology of Man and Woman--Difference between Man and Woman in Mat- ters of Public Morality.
— from The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage by Almroth Wright

It is a proposition to which I think a perfectly precise meaning can be given, and one which does not at all imply that the possession of P caused any change in A, but which might conceivably be true of all terms and all the relational properties they have, without exception.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

Thomond should be divided among as many men as possible, supreme military command being given to the Earl.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

The rules for this interpretation are the rules of the syllogism: and its sole purpose is to maintain consistency between the conclusions we draw in every particular case, and the previous general directions for drawing them; whether those general directions were framed by ourselves as the result of induction, or were received by us from an authority competent to give them. § 5.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

Next, the foot-race, with many contestants, but Ellis coming out ahead.
— from Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition by Charles Lanman

Highways, parks, public buildings, monuments, could be builded; nor would it be out of place to give better factories and homes to the workers.
— from War of the Classes by Jack London