They were alike too, in a general benevolence of temper, and a strong habit of regard for every old acquaintance.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

They do not succeed in producing even that impression of reality at which they aim, and which is their only reason for existing.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Nicholas hazarded one or two further remarks, but it was evident that Tim Linkinwater had his own reasons for evading the subject, and that he was determined to afford no further information respecting the fair unknown, who had awakened so much curiosity in the breast of his young friend.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

There is a throng of institutions in the old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the above.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Mr. St. John came but once: he looked at me, and said my state of lethargy was the result of reaction from excessive and protracted fatigue.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

During the month of February, the thermometer often ranged from eighteen to twenty-seven degrees below zero.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

There is no living human being in these regions excepting myself; and I too should long ago have been devoured had not an old Rakshasi, conceiving strange affection for me, prevented the other Rakshasas from eating me up.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

—For the better comprehension of the internal relations, past and present, of Mewar [477], a sketch is presented, showing the political divisions of the tribes and the fiscal domain, from which a better idea may be formed of Rajput feudal economy than from a chapter of dissertation.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Psychology would then be knowledge of reality, for even when consciousness contains elaborate thoughts that might be full of illusions, psychology takes them only as so much feeling, and in that capacity they are real enough.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Daghan siyag kaindig sa íyang gugma ni Ispir, He has lots of rivals for Esper’s love.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

While, under Louis XV., it was estimated that "coffee with one roll for each lady of honor cost the King 2,000 livres a year," and under Louis XVI.," the grand broth night and day" which Madame Royale, aged two years, sometimes drank and which figured in the annual accounts at 5201 livres, 3212 under Napoleon "in the pantries, in the kitchens, the smallest dish, a mere plate of soup, a glass of sugared water, would not have been served without the authorization or check of grand-marshal Duroc.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

In the field of reform Frances E. Willard takes first place.
— from Men and Things by Henry A. Atkinson

As we have seen, the only reason for employing long cores is to afford the requisite length for winding the wire which is necessary for carrying the needful circulation of current to force the magnetism across the air gaps.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various

The Board neither dictates as to works, nor superintends works, but reserves the power of refusing sanction to a proposed loan, and of requiring full explanations as to failures in the works, or as to expenses over estimates before sanctioning a supplemental loan.
— from The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois

On the other hand, the illustrations of E. tetragena show that the authors have been dealing with the small generation or reduced forms (“ E. minuta ”), which are the direct descendants of the large trophozoites.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

During the week following the declaration of war 211 more national flags were displayed in the South than had been shown in the memory of the oldest resident, for except on public buildings the national flag has not been commonly displayed.
— from The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson