She and Jane would have been altogether cheered (in a tearful manner) by this sign that a brother who disliked seeing them while he was living had been prospectively fond of their presence when he should have become a testator, if the sign had not been made equivocal by being extended to Mrs. Vincy, whose expense in handsome crape seemed to imply the most presumptuous hopes, aggravated by a bloom of complexion which told pretty plainly that she was not a blood-relation, but of that generally objectionable class called wife's kin.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

It is sometimes said that the most important truths of religion cannot be conveyed into the minds of ordinary men, except by being enclosed, as it were, in a shell of fiction; so that by relating such fictions as if they were facts, we are really performing an act of substantial veracity.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Mrs. Bond Miss Bond Mrs. Borckhardt Mrs. E. Bouverie —— Brand, Esq.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

The ultimate crushing of the Americans, too, not by direct military effort but by exhaustion, was probable, if England were left unmolested to strangle their commerce and industries with her overwhelming naval strength.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Give time enough, and all sentient things ought, at this rate, to end by assuming an identical mental constitution—for 'experience,' the sole shaper, is a constant fact, and the order of its items must end by being exactly reflected by the passive mirror which we call the sentient organism.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It would seem that something like an eternity must elapse before, by ethereal resistance or other cause, these can be brought into proximity great enough to make collisions probable.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 1 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

The czar was so pleased with this answer, that he immediately ordered him to court, where he gave him at first a mean employment; but being every day more pleased with his wit, he thought fit to place him about his person, and to make him groom of his bed-chamber, from whence he gradually raised him to the highest preferments.
— from The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia by Voltaire

Exclusiveness is the result of ignorance, but privacy and seclusion may even be better enjoyed in the conditions prevailing here than in our own state of existence, and because of the unlimited power and material to draw upon.
— from The Ghost of Guir House by Charles Willing Beale

It is argued that the most important truths of religion cannot be conveyed into the minds of ordinary men, except by being enclosed, as it were, in a shell of fiction, and that by relating such fictions as if they were facts we are really performing an act of substantial veracity.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

49 FEBRUARY 17 BREAKFAST LUNCHEON Grapefruit marmalade Eggs Benedict Boiled eggs Tripe sauté, Lyonnaise Buttered toast Potatoes hashed in cream Ceylon tea Romaine salad Camembert cheese and crackers Coffee DINNER Consommé Rachel Sardines Olives Boiled sheepshead, cream sauce Potatoes Hollandaise Roast leg of mutton, currant jelly Baked Hubbard squash German fried potatoes Celery Mayonnaise Plum pudding, hard and brandy sauces Coffee Tripe sauté, Lyonnaise.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

On this occasion, as in defence of Lord George Gordon, Mr. Erskine began by explaining the law of treason, under the statute of Edward III.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin