But to the most curious sorte, in the formes he will oblish himselfe, to enter in a dead bodie, and there out of to giue such answers, of the euent of battels, of maters concerning the estate of commonwelths, and such like other great questions: yea, to some he will be a continuall attender, in forme of a Page: He will permit himselfe to be conjured, for the space of so many yeres, ether in a tablet or a ring, or such like thing, which they may easely carrie about with them: He giues them power to sel such wares to others, whereof some will bee dearer, and some better cheape; according to the lying or true speaking of the Spirit that is conjured therein.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

cabo m end; corporal; al—— ultimately, to end up with, now as introductory conj. .
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

They ran a most exciting course and died away in mutual raptures.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

However highly we must esteem courage and firmness in War, and however little prospect there is of victory to him who cannot resolve to seek it by the exertion of all his power, still there is a point beyond which perseverance can only be termed desperate folly, and therefore can meet with no approbation from any critic.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

I dedicated to it the hours of the night in which sleep deserted me, I meditated in my bed with my eyes closed, and in my mind turned over and over again my periods with incredible labor and care; the moment they were finished to my satisfaction, I deposited them in my memory, until I had an opportunity of committing them to paper; but the time of rising and putting on my clothes made me lose everything, and when I took up my pen I recollected but little of what I had composed.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Perhaps the virtuous indignation expressed by some of the more enlightened catholics against these abominable proceedings, had no small share in restraining them.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Thus the body itself must be manifestation of the will, and it must be related to my will as a whole, that is, to my intelligible character, whose phenomenal appearance in time is my empirical character, as the particular action of the body is related to the particular act of the will.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

He on this, as on all other occasions, performed his cue to a miracle, expressing confusion and concern so naturally in his gestures and exclamation, that no man could possibly suspect his sincerity; nay, to such a degree of finesse did his cunning amount, that when his friend and patron entered, in consequence of an intimation he soon received of his loss, our adventurer exhibited undoubted signs of distraction and delirium, and, springing upon Renaldo with all the frantic fury of a bedlamite, “Villain,” cried he, “restore the effects you have stole from your master, or you shall be immediately committed to the care of the prevot.”
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Reid, Berkeley, Cudworth, Hobbes, all lay jumbled together in most edifying chaos at the bottom of Mr. Trollolop's capacious mind; and whenever he opened his mouth, the imprisoned enemies came rushing and scrambling out, overturning and contradicting each other in a manner quite astounding to the ignorant spectator.
— from The Disowned — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

At the same time courtesy has many charms, even for the Turks, though it is not to be denied, or in any way concealed, that a Turk, especially if he be a pasha, is, of all obscene and utter children of the devil, the most entirely contemptible and thoroughly to be execrated.’
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He was remarkable for courage, and had signalised himself in the wars of the tribe,” but “no sooner did he hear the fatal news than he was seized by the most extraordinary convulsions and cramp in the stomach, which never ceased till he died, about sundown the same day.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

We must not deny the truth of an assertion, from such authority, but we must conclude that the disease was more easily curable a century ago than it is at present. § 33.
— from An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering

In the efforts put forth by McCombs and his friends to destroy Mr. Wilson's high opinion of Mr. McAdoo every contemptible and underhanded method was resorted to.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

"Allow me to introduce one of America's most effective counterespionage agents, Mr. Samson Narko!"
— from Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Appleton, Victor, II

Belfield picked him up somewhere, and desired to bring him to my house: he called him by the name of Albany: I found him a most extraordinary character, and Belfield, who is a worshipper of originality, was very fond of him.”
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

Three thousand miles of ocean, and months, even years, in time, separated the assertion from the proof, encouraged the most exaggerated charges, and contributed to the unjustified sympathy extended by the King to many petitioners who did not deserve such consideration.
— from Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 by Wilcomb E. Washburn