Of course, there are different degrees of shock.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The site of Colossæ then, as determined by these considerations, lies two or three miles north of the present town of Chonos, the mediæval Chonæ, and some twelve miles east of Laodicea.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Of course, there are defects, even a good many, I grant you, but still she is charming.'
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If the appearances from sufficiently neighbouring places are either wholly un changed, or changed to a diminishing extent which has zero for its limit, it is usually found that the changes can be accounted for by changes in objects which are between the object in question and the places from which its appearance has changed appreciably.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Now we will not be so degenerate as to need Emund to give us counsel; but let us, friends and relations, unite ourselves for the purpose of coming to a determination."
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Not subject to rectification by consideration of consequences, they are demoralizing.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The grower's price I understand to be the same with what is sometimes called the contract price, or the price at which a farmer contracts for a certain number of years to deliver a certain quantity of corn to a dealer.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Travelling is performed on camels, through a desert and sandy country, in the course of which snakes are found in great numbers.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on any other conditions than a denial of the infinite.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

They intended their philosophy not to supersede or contradict the Apostolic doctrine, but to supplement it and to explain it on philosophical principles.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Of course they are drinking and smoking, and have female companions, respecting whose character there can be no doubt.
— from The Night Side of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

At the period of the fall of Constantinople, Thomas and Demetrius Paleologi, brothers to the unfortunate Emperor Constantinus, "governed a great part of Peloponesus, one of the most famous provinces of Græcia, and these two princes dismaied at their brothers disaster fortune, began so farre to despaire of their own estate; and upon the first brute thereof they were about presently to have fled by sea to Italy."
— from The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) Rogers

Of course there are disadvantages!
— from Just a Girl by Charles Garvice

The news soon spread, and in the morning officers came to arrest Dinias.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by of Samosata Lucian

In the dilemma between renouncing the ether altogether or acknowledging its disappearance—effective at least—it occurred to us that it might be for want of heat, and that in terms of the inter-dependency of temperature and pressure in a gas, heat disappeared in proportion to the decrease of pressure in the air or gas that was being exhausted from the tube, or from cold being applied to it from without; but that notion has already been disposed of by our own work, when we have seen that a gas in a close vessel can be heated or cooled to any degree, altogether independently of pressure.
— from New Theories in Astronomy by Willam Stirling

They take his wages from him, and, were it not for a lump of fat Bacon which my friend's Servants give him now and again for Charity's sake, he would have nothing better to eat from Week's End [135] to Week's End than the hunch of Bread and the morsel of Cheese that are doled forth to him every morning when he goes to his labour.
— from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala

It might be some one coming to announce deeper misfortune still.
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

If Judges can devote sufficient time to the Test, each section may well be repeated on different days in order that the Judges may have ample opportunity of coming to a decision.
— from Ski-running by Katharine Furse

Indeed, in a period before the outbreak of the American Revolution, one can trace a distinct belt of democratic territory extending from the back country of New England down through western New York, Pennsylvania, and the South.
— from The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner