He accomplished this by taking my order for examination to the examining officer and representing himself as John Carter.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

For, admitting the truth of all that has been said, that, namely, the inference from a given existence (my own, for example) to the existence of an unconditioned and necessary being is valid and unassailable; that, in the second place, we must consider a being which contains all reality, and consequently all the conditions of other things, to be absolutely unconditioned; and admitting too, that we have thus discovered the conception of a thing to which may be attributed, without inconsistency, absolute necessity—it does not follow from all this that the conception of a limited being, in which the supreme reality does not reside, is therefore incompatible with the idea of absolute necessity.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

They had one son, Arthur, whom they spoilt in the most outrageous fashion, even to the extent of encouraging him in acts of cruelty.
— from Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell

Deepdale beck yawns on the left, and every mile opens fresh enjoyment to the eye, and revives associations.
— from A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

As a matter of fact, even tho the English people were much in advance of the Germans in civilization and in all the refinements of life, it was not till 1833 that England as a government took her first step looking toward the education of her children thru appropriating money.
— from On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd