But as the facts in relation to all the figures are most singular (especially when taken in connection with statements made in the body of the narrative), it may be as well to say a word or two concerning them all—this, too, the more especially as the facts in question have, beyond doubt, escaped the attention of Mr. Poe.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

'Oh no,' it may be answered, 'for he is doubtful about Marcellus too; and yet, if he were living at Elsinore, he must have seen Marcellus often.'
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

And fynaly, what wight that it with-seyde, 215 It was for nought, it moste been, and sholde; For substaunce of the parlement it wolde.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Nowhere, it might be added, are the responses to social contact so obvious and, at the same time, so difficult to analyze and define.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Rameau pretended to see nothing in me but a contemptible pilferer, without talents or taste.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But—if our Lord came North, it may be any one of these little ones that we have run across.' 'I do not know.' '
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

It is to this fact that all fundamentally incorrect judgments of new impressions must be attributed,—for example, when we pass from darkness into bright light and find it very sharp; when we find a cellar warm in winter that we believe to be ice-cold in summer; when we suppose ourselves to be high up in the air the first time we are on horseback, etc.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

No one can tell to-day what the students’ strike will bring next; it may bring a revolution, it may do anything surprising to the police, who seem to be as lacking in imagination as police are famous for being.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Fernan de Magalhães seeing that, got ready one night with his boats, and burned the villages of those who would not yield the said obedience; and a matter of ten or twelve days after this was done, he sent to a village about [ 340 ] half a league from that which he had burned, which is named Matam, and which is also an island, and ordered them to send him at once three goats, three pigs, three loads of rice, and three loads of millet for provisions for the ships; they replied that for each article which he sent to ask them three of, they would send to him by twos, and if he was satisfied with this they would at once comply, if not, it might be as he pleased, but that they would not give it.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

But I began to doubt at near ten o'clock, (so earnest was she to leave me, suspecting my over-warm behaviour to her, and eager grasping of her hand two or three times, with eye-strings, as I felt, on the strain, while her eyes showed uneasiness and apprehension,) that if she actually retired for the night, it might be a chance whether it would be easy to come at her again.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

When a church clock strikes, on houseless ears in the dead of the night, it may be at first mistaken for company and hailed as such.
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

Its name is Mawur, but, alas, it is far distant from us—a matter of some twenty leagues—the desert lies between, and we shall hardly reach it within the day that remains.
— from The Mercy of Allah by Hilaire Belloc

" "Name it, my brother, and if it be a thing within my power to compass, it shall be granted, even according to thy wish," answered Réné.
— from The Flamingo Feather by Kirk Munroe

I ask this not in mockery, but as knowing that the Church must have an explanation to give, if she would only give it, and as myself unable to find any, even the most farfetched, that can bring what we see at Oropa, Loreto and elsewhere into harmony with modern conscience, either intellectual or ethical.
— from Essays on Life, Art and Science by Samuel Butler

I think it is a system that can work and works, and possibly for a very poor man, and a very undeveloped nation it may be a solution.
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

1613 From the account of Nepos it may be also conjectured that it was performed by unmarried women.
— from The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

It might be nothing; it might be a letter.
— from The Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald

It is clear, in any case, that our convictions on important matters are not the result of knowledge or critical thought, nor, it may be added, are they often dictated by supposed self-interest.
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson

And now it must be admitted that he seemed very much disturbed in mind.
— from The Rover Boys on a Tour; or, Last Days at Brill College by Edward Stratemeyer