For in mathematics I myself can by thinking construct whatever I represent to myself as possible by a concept: I add to the first two the other two, one by one, and myself make the number four, or I draw in thought from one point to another all manner of lines, equal as well as unequal; yet I can draw one only, which is like itself in all its parts.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

But we will keep the secret inviolate, and deceive them for their own good with the mirage of life eternal in Thy kingdom.
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Their manner of living, even when the restoration of peace dismissed them to a home, was unsettled in the extreme.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The mouth is widely opened with the lips retracted in a peculiar manner, which causes it to assume a squarish form; the gums or teeth being more or less exposed.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

And if any lifeless thing deprive a man of life, except in the case of a thunderbolt or other fatal dart sent from the Gods—whether a man is killed by lifeless objects falling upon him, or by his falling upon them, the nearest of kin shall appoint the nearest neighbour to be a judge, and thereby acquit himself and the whole family of guilt.
— from Laws by Plato

Mantling or, lined ermine.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This was no great reproach, for, more or less, every statesman lied, but the intensity of the private secretary's rage sprang from his belief that Russell's form of defence covered intent to kill.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

In this use of the word, society is identified with social structure, something more or less external to individuals.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

For American literature we want mighty authors, not even Carlyle- and Heine-like, born and brought up in (and more or less essentially partaking and giving out) that vast abnormal ward or hysterical sick-chamber which in many respects Europe, with all its glories, would seem to be.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He further notes some curious uses of the genitive case, e.g. philias omologiai, maniai orges, laimargiai edones, cheimonon anupodesiai, anosioi plegon tolmai; and of the dative, omiliai echthrois, nomothesiai, anosioi plegon tolmai; and of the dative omiliai echthrois, nomothesiai epitropois; and also some rather uncommon periphrases, thremmata Neilou, xuggennetor teknon for alochos, Mouses lexis for poiesis, zographon paides, anthropon spermata and the like; the fondness for particles of limitation, especially tis and ge, sun tisi charisi, tois ge dunamenois and the like; the pleonastic use of tanun, of os, of os eros eipein, of ekastote; and the periphrastic use of the preposition peri.
— from Laws by Plato

From him the dear illusions long had fled, That o'er the morn of life enchantment shed; Yet virtue's calm reflections cheer'd his breast, And life was joy serene, and death was rest.
— from Poems (1786), Volume I. by Helen Maria Williams

A permanently laborious and suffocative breathing, accompanied by wheezing, cough, a peculiar shrillness of the voice, and more or less expectoration of purulent matter, which continually threatens suffocation.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Indeed, as we have attempted to show, the hypothesis is not a method which we may employ or not as we choose; on the contrary, as predicate of the judgment it is present in a more or less explicit form if we judge at all.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey

The man had shrunk down, thoroughly quelled by the ferocity of the crowd and the impossibility of escape, but seeing this sudden change with no less rapidity than it occurred, he sprung upon his feet, determined to make one last effort for his life by dropping into the ditch, and, at the risk of being stifled, endeavouring to creep away in the darkness and confusion.
— from Oliver Twist, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Charles Dickens

Munera , of late Empire, 345 .
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak

They are made of liquefied electricity.
— from Olympian Nights by John Kendrick Bangs

Many other instances might be adduced, to show how ineffectual have been the attempts to plant civilization on savage habits, by means of literary education—“Can the leopard change his spots?”
— from Anecdotes of the American Indians Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character by Alexander Vietts Blake

This devotion is commonly inspired either by the desire to amass great wealth, for the sake of the status, influence, and means of lavish enjoyment it is assumed to confer; or by the more modest desire to secure a competence, to stand in that golden mean of comfort which is darkened by no harassing fears of future penury or need.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox