This order could therefore by no possibility be a cause of the decrease of exports in 1765.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

3. You never play billiards except with Thurston.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Their jurisdiction was soon reduced to the limits of a narrow province: but Narses himself, the first and most powerful of the exarchs, administered above fifteen years the entire kingdom of Italy.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But now, since they had been in Rome, with all the depths of her emotion roused to tumultuous activity, and with life made a new problem by new elements, she had been becoming more and more aware, with a certain terror, that her mind was continually sliding into inward fits of anger and repulsion, or else into forlorn weariness.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Economic Conditions The causes of this threatened revolution were not political but economic.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness—mostly you're [sic] backbone.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

On the other hand no reason a priori could be specified,—and even the possibility of a reason would not be apparent from the concept of nature as an object of experience whether general or particular,—why there should be objective purposes of nature, i.e. things which are only possible as natural purposes; but the Judgement, without containing such a principle a priori in itself, in given cases (of certain products), in order to make use of the concept of purposes on behalf of Reason, would only contain the rule according to which that transcendental principle has already prepared the Understanding to apply to nature the concept of a purpose (at least as regards its form).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

His household gods are of flesh and blood, with no alloy of silver, gold, or precious stone; he has no property but in the affections of his own heart; and when they endear bare floors and walls, despite of rags and toil and scanty fare, that man has his love of home from God, and his rude hut becomes a solemn place.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

And such is my conviction of the extent of the participation the Jews take in the everyday literature of Germany, that I never pass by a crowded reading-room, but what I think I see standing behind the scenes a Jew, causing new ideas to rise and stir, and develop themselves in the unsuspecting mind of the Gentile.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Here and there a faint farthing rushlight, hastily kindled; and so many swart-featured haggard faces, with nightcaps pushed back; and the more or less flowing drapery of night-shirt: open-mouthed till the General say his word!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

All the Amphibia (with very rare exceptions) retain their gills for some time when young, and have for a time (if not permanently) branchial respiration; but after these there is no question of branchial respiration.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

On the instant, a bridge was extended from the galley to the neighboring pier; but, ere the quivering planks were steadied, with an active bound the triumvir had thrown himself over the high bulwarks and stood in the centre of the eager throng that crowded round to witness the arrival of a galley from the fleet.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 2, August 1852 by Various

o' my power At Kirk you'd neither pray nor praise, But on the lassies ye wad gaze, Notice neat feet, blue eyes, fine claes, Or Jenny's bonnet, An makin rhyme on what ye ha'e, Seen creeping on it.
— from Verses and Rhymes By the Way by Norah

[ They cross quickly, the Soldier receives the money— Christine now paces before the tent into which Lenox , Adela and the General have retired.
— from She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa by M. M. (Mordecai Manuel) Noah

The flying earl took his course through a narrow passage between the works, and proceeding swiftly toward the south, issued safely at one of the outer ballium gates—that part of the castle being now solitary, all the men having been drawn from the walls to the contest within—and thence he made his escape in a fisher's boat across the Clyde.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

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— from Marjorie Dean, Marvelous Manager by Josephine Chase

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— from The Philosophy Which Shows the Physiology of Mesmerism and Explains the Phenomenon of Clairvoyance by T. H. Pasley

Another cause of the close connexion between the maturity and the decay of art is that the representation of man and Nature produced by a great master is coloured by his own thought and feeling.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

That Divine Logos, and theology as a whole, receded further and further aloft into abysmal heights, as it became a mere dreary system of dead scientific terms, having no practical bearing on their hearts and lives; and then they, as the Neoplatonists had done before them, filled up the void by those dæmonologies, images, base Fetish worships, which made the Mohammedan invaders regard them, and I believe justly, as polytheists and idolaters, base as the pagan Arabs of the desert.
— from Alexandria and Her Schools Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh by Charles Kingsley

The hangings are of an alluring Chinoiserie chintz, and there are several Chinese color prints framed and hanging in the narrow panels between the front windows.
— from The House in Good Taste by Elsie De Wolfe