Constant experience makes us sensible of both these, though our narrow understandings can comprehend neither.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Smith was to move under cover of night, up close to the enemy's works, and assault as soon as he could after daylight.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

It’s of no use cross-examining my eyes,’ cried Sampson, winking and rubbing them, ‘they stick to their first account, and will.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

“His immortalibus editis operibus, quum ad exercitum recensendum concionem in campo ad Caprae paludem haberet, subita coorta tempestate cum magno fragore tonitribusque tam denso regem operuit nimbo, ut conspectum ejus concioni abstulerit; nec deinde in terris Romulus fuit.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.
— 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

He had the Negro head, too; almost no head at all; nothing behind the ears but folds of neck under close-clipped wool.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Still to cultivate the acquaintance of someone of no uncommon calibre who could provide food for reflection would amply repay any small.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

But one night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy home, and robbed them all of everything.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Having by this time cried as much as I possibly could, I began to think it was of no use crying any more, especially as neither Roderick Random, nor that Captain in the Royal British Navy, had ever cried, that I could remember, in trying situations.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

These might be given in the way of natural, unstudied conversation, and thus be not only heard with attention, but sink deep.
— from The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

[Pg 43] A 'Grocery Store' at the Ethical Culture School Schools can often obtain new unfilled cartons from manufacturers.
— from A Catalogue of Play Equipment by Jean Lee Hunt

The wood of the baobab tree is of no use commercially, being so spongy that a ·303 bullet will go clean through even the biggest of them; but the bark, which is fibrous, is sometimes stripped off by the natives, and used for making ropes, and a coarse kind of cloth.
— from A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas by Meg Gehrts

The spring roundup, which is the one now under consideration, [328] is held in the latter part of April or early part of May in Wyoming and Montana, and earlier or later in other States and Territories, according to the nature of the climate, weather, etc.
— from Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing by G. O. (George O.) Shields

The approach, therefore, of Sidi Hamet to the residence of Bacri one night, under cover of the darkness, was regarded by the Jew with feelings of misgiving, which caused his face to become suddenly very grave, as he looked th
— from The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

—The curfew is still rung at Bromyard, Herefordshire, at nine P.M., from the 5th of November, until Christmas Day; and the bell is afterwards tolled the number of the day of the month.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various

If he mean this, it is nothing to the argument in question; if not, then he must assert the monstrous absurdity of, No unregenerate Church, no Christ. Ib.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Just as Reason in the theoretical consideration of nature must assume the Idea of an unconditioned necessity of its original ground, so also it presupposes in the practical [sphere] its own (in respect of nature) unconditioned causality, or freedom, in that it is conscious of its own moral command.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant