Experience soon teaches us this method of correcting our sentiments, or at least, of correcting our language, where the sentiments are more stubborn and inalterable.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Convinced that my only chance of success was to catch her in the critical moment when she would be too much overwhelmed by her voluptuous sensations to offer any resistance, and afraid that any precipitate movement on my part might enable her to retain that self-command of which she possessed so large a share, I waited quietly for the effect of the seductive entertainment I had provided for her.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

but when I see them make matters of conscience of such toys and trifles, to adore the devil, to endanger their souls, to offer their children to their idols, &c. I must needs condole their misery.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“ Quier,” or “queer,” like cheat, was a very common prefix, and meant bad or wicked,—it now means odd, curious, or strange; but to the ancient Cant we are possibly indebted [14] for the word, which etymologists should remember.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Generally speaking, the disappointment must be caused by the wrong-doing of the person on the other side; and the most obvious cases of such wrong-doing are fraud and misrepresentation, or failure to perform his own part of the contract.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Quier ,” or QUEER , like cheat , was a very common prefix, and meant bad or wicked,—it now means odd, curious, or strange; but to the ancient cant we are indebted for the word, which etymologists should remember.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The sixth kind of mummy was made of corpuscles, or spiritual effluences, radiated from the living body; though we cannot get very clear ideas on this head, or respecting the manner in which they were caught.—
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Within the space of a mandra, or circle of stones, to which he had attached himself by a ponderous chain, he ascended a column, which was successively raised from the height of nine, to that of sixty, feet from the ground.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“I’ll ask leave to go to the front, this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Chintz, Cretonne, and any other printed cotton fabrics which enter into the manufacture of chair or sofa coverings, curtains, hassocks, screens, etc., may be termed Printed Furnitures.
— from Piece Goods Manual Fabrics described; textile, knit goods, weaving terms, etc., explained; with notes on the classification of samples. by A. E. Blanco

Chinese boots are made of cloth or satin, never of leather.
— from Highroads of Geography Introductory Book: Round the World with Father by Anonymous

Trans. , vol. viii., “The Manor of Castre or Stafford,” by Mr Mazzinghi, a paper abounding in valuable information, to which the present writer is greatly indebted.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

It is not known, however, whether all the modifications of chromic oxide show this phenomenon.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Besides the animals mentioned above, the cave-bear and lion have been met with in one, and the mammoth in five localities, and their remains bear marks of cutting or scraping, which show that they fell a prey to hunters.
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins

"Children of the natural method [his own method of classification of skin diseases,] are you all here?"
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

On the right bank we made our camp on some sand at the mouth of a gulch, and immediately put on our dry clothes from the boats.
— from A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

[coldly] Neither plan Is quite expedient for the moment, man. ROUSTAN Neither? NAPOLEON There may be, in some suited time, Some cleaner means of carrying out such work.
— from The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon by Thomas Hardy

Under the ordinary state of things, the amount of available wealth in the hands, or at the command, of those concerned, suffices to meet these claims as they are severally presented for payment; and they are paid either by equivalents of intrinsic value, as coin, or by giving in place of them other memoranda of claims on some body of undoubted solvency.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer