'I object on principle,' said Eugene, 'as a biped—' 'As a what?' asked Mr Boffin. 'As a two-footed creature;—I object on principle, as a two-footed creature, to being constantly referred to insects and four-footed creatures.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The first and second appearances of the object, being compared with the succession of our perceptions, seem equally removed as if the object had really changed.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Expeditions for fuel and for forage, and the distance from which water has to be fetched, cause our sailors to be cut off by the Syracusan cavalry; the loss of our previous superiority emboldens our slaves to desert; our foreign seamen are impressed by the unexpected appearance of a navy against us, and the strength of the enemy's resistance; such of them as were pressed into the service take the first opportunity of departing to their respective cities; such as were originally seduced by the temptation of high pay, and expected little fighting and large gains, leave us either by desertion to the enemy or by availing themselves of one or other of the various facilities of escape which the magnitude of Sicily affords them.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Napoleon lived in an age when God was no longer believed; the meaning of all Silence, Latency, was thought to be Nonentity: he had to begin not out of the Puritan Bible, but out of poor Sceptical Encyclopedies .
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Probably no one else on this earthly planet--not even Hay--could have come out on precisely such extreme personal satisfaction, but as he sat at Hay's table, listening to any member of the British Cabinet, for all were alike now, discuss the Philippines as a question of balance of power in the East, he could see that the family work of a hundred and fifty years fell at once into the grand perspective of true empire-building, which Hay's work set off with artistic skill.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The other, the astral body of living persons and carrying full consciousness or only partially so endowed.
— from The Ocean of Theosophy by William Quan Judge

Thus, the sun is the heart of our planetary system; everything is drawn, everything converges towards him.
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

When every thing is confused with crowded railroads and the interruption of conveyance threatened by the exigencies of other public service, every thing proceeds in the post-office department with almost the regularity of clock-work.
— from Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece by James Rees

The region of sculptured rocks, or of painted stones, extends far beyond the Lower Orinoco, beyond the country (latitude 7 degrees 5 minutes to 7 degrees 40 minutes, longitude 68 degrees 50 minutes to 69 degrees 45 minutes) to which belongs what may be called the local fables of the Tamanacs.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

This year, as for three years past, they have ripened with me, and on one plant, strangely enough, a piece of the [74] flower has itself fructified!
— from A Year in a Lancashire Garden Second Edition by Henry Arthur Bright

They stared on the next occasion of meeting, when Bloundell spoke in contemptuous terms of old Pen; said everybody knew old Pen, regular old trencherman at Gaunt House, notorious old bore, regular old fogy.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Mayn't I keep out one pair?" said Ellen, who had a vague notion that by some mysterious means her stockings were to be prevented from ever looking white any more.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner