{34} Namely, a character, making most of common and normal elements, to the superstructure of which not only the precious accumulations of the learning and experiences of the Old World, and the settled social and municipal necessities and current requirements, so long a-building, shall still faithfully contribute, but which at its foundations and carried up thence, and receiving its impetus from the democratic spirit, and accepting its gauge in all departments from the democratic formulas, shall again directly be vitalized by the perennial influences of Nature at first hand, and the old heroic stamina of Nature, the strong air of prairie and mountain, the dash of the briny sea, the primary antiseptics—of the passions, in all their fullest heat and potency, of courage, rankness, amativeness, and of immense pride.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

“Nothing new, except that the soldiers are robbing and pillaging—October 9.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Without further argument, is it not evident that there Space, like all other a priori conditions, is object only to the Reason, and that as a condition of material existence?
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

a new enemy, the Tarquinians, started up.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

If the determining ground of our judgement as to this universal communicability of the representation is to be merely subjective, i.e. is conceived independently of any concept of the object, it can be nothing else than the state of mind, which is to be met with in the relation of our representative powers to each other, so far as they refer a given representation to cognition in general .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

From these causes it arose that Marcus, Pertinax, and Alexander, being all men of modest life, lovers of justice, enemies to cruelty, humane, and benignant, came to a sad end except Marcus; he alone lived and died honoured, because he had succeeded to the throne by hereditary title, and owed nothing either to the soldiers or the people; and afterwards, being possessed of many virtues which made him respected, he always kept both orders in their places whilst he lived, and was neither hated nor despised.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Jane resumed her bathing, as if what Sarah did or said was not exactly the thing she liked to repeat.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

And thou the subject of this welborne thought, Thrice noble maid, couldst not have found nor sought A fitter time to yeeld to thy sad Fate, Then whiles this spirit lives, that can relate 15 Thy worth so well to our last Nephews eyne, That they shall wonder both at his and thine: Admired match!
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

‘He has come out,’ said little Mr. Perker, greatly excited; the more so as their position did not enable them to see what was going forward.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Wis 12:8 Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thine host, to destroy them by little and little.
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

[67] These islands were now exposed to the same hazard, from their overwhelming Persian neighbors, as that from which they had been rescued nearly a century before by the Confederacy of Delos, and by the Athenian empire into which that Confederacy was transformed.
— from History of Greece, Volume 10 (of 12) by George Grote

11:45 He shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. 12:1 "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

But the object to which a subject essentially, necessarily relates, is nothing else than this subject’s own, but objective, nature.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

There is no end to this sin, yet I cannot check it!’
— from Mashi, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

The mesmerizer then made passes over one of the fingers, taking care not to move his hand near enough to the subject's finger to cause a perceptible movement of the atmosphere, or to give any indication in any other way which finger was being mesmerized.
— from The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc. by Thomson Jay Hudson

This single stroke brought the bow up near enough to the sloop to enable the bowman to fasten the boat-hook to the gunwale of the helpless craft.
— from Stem to Stern; or, building the boat by Oliver Optic

The Coroner’s Inquest discovered nothing except that the stairs were improperly and insecurely constructed.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

84 “I’m Veve McGuire,” she told him, not even trying to smile.
— from The Brownie Scouts at Snow Valley by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt