There are always some honest men in every nation, though heaven knows, too, that they are scarce among the Maquas, to look down an upstart when he brags ag'in the face of reason.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial, nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we measur'd swords and parted.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

De law kin sell me now if dey tell me to leave de State in six months 217 en I don’t go.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Of beasts, some live in herds, others separate, as is most convenient for procuring themselves food; as some of them live upon flesh, others on fruit, and others on whatsoever they light on, nature having so distinguished their course of life, that they can very easily procure themselves subsistence; and as the same things are not agreeable to all, but one animal likes one thing and another another, it follows that the lives of those beasts who live upon flesh must be different from the lives of those who live on fruits; so is it with men, their lives differ greatly from each other; and of all these the shepherd's is the idlest, for they live upon the flesh of tame animals, without any trouble, while they are obliged to change their habitations on account of their flocks, which they are compelled to follow, cultivating, as it were, a living farm.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Nevertheless, after going over the subject in his mind the livelong day, he was rather weary of it and wished it over with.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

E.g., the former says: "I ought not to lie, if I would retain my reputation"; the latter says: "I ought not to lie, although it should not bring me the least discredit."
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

On the morning of the first day of the next month, the landlady does not present her bill, according to promise—a piece of neglect for which the comfortable head of the house ending in ogs would no doubt have chided her severely, could he have been prevailed upon to remain in town a day or two for that purpose.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Well might the learned Daniel Burgess say, "That a lawsuit is a suit for life.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

"You wouldn't harm him; any more than Lad does.
— from Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune

Transference may occur as a stormy demand for love or in a more moderate form; in place of the desire to be his mistress, the young girl may wish to be adopted as the favored daughter of the old man, the libidinous desire may be toned down to a proposal of inseparable but ideal and platonic friendship.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

To meet this lawyer, Dwight had ridden to town right after drill, and up to noon had not returned.
— from A Soldier's Trial: An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King

He therefore deployed to the left, and forming a line in the open field, in front of Chippewa, directed his men to lie down with their heads toward the batteries, the better to avoid the effect of their fire.
— from An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard

This walking horror, this mass of loathsome rags endued with motion, this living disease, was the sometime prosperous stockbroker, the man whom it had been impossible to think of except furnished with linen of spotless whiteness, and the glossy broad-cloth, and well-made boots, and keyless chronometer, and silk umbrella of commercial success.
— from Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The close connection between the former and relativism is evident, and the form of egoism most consistent with epistemological relativism is to be found among those same Sophists who first maintained this latter doctrine.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

"That won't make the least difference, for we haven't any of us played it before.
— from The Story of the Big Front Door by Mary Finley Leonard