As time passed on the family became accustomed to their ghostly visitor, and seeing it never did them any harm, but on the contrary was a source of recreation to them, they used to boldly speak to it, and indulge in entertaining conversation.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Can it be thought that it is for any other reason that we are so ready to reduce it to the level of our familiar inclination, or that it is for any other reason that we all take such trouble to make it out to be the chosen precept of our own interest well understood, but that we want to be free from the deterrent respect which shows us our own unworthiness with such severity?
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Now money-making, as we say, being twofold, it may be applied to two purposes, the service of the house or retail trade; of which the first is necessary and commendable, the other justly censurable; for it has not its origin in [1258b] nature, but by it men gain from each other; for usury is most reasonably detested, as it is increasing our fortune by money itself, and not employing it for the purpose it was originally intended, namely exchange.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Therefore the habit enters into the causation of the response, and so do, at one remove, the causes of the habit.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

A torn curtain of red twill hung in the doorway of the hut, and flapped sadly in our faces.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Jim, bending over her, looked earnestly upon her face, and all at once ran to the landing-stage.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

; but he had known him often refuse to be concerned after another had been sent before him; “but, sir,” says he, “if you will take my advice, there is not a man in the kingdom can do your business better than the barber who was with you last night.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

341 Our author’s opinion respecting the origin of winds nearly agrees with that of Aristotle; “nihil ut aliud ventus ( ἄνεμος ) sit, nisi aër multus fluctuans et compressus, qui etiam spiritus ( πνεῦμα ) appellatur;” De Meteor.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Go up to your own room; think over all I have said, and, Jane, cast a glance on my sufferings—think of me.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Probably Herschel found but few in the gay city who cared for such matters; he was quickly drawn to Sir W. Watson, who at once reciprocated the feeling, and thus began a friendship which bore important fruit in Herschel's subsequent career.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

For who could affirm that his King John and Henry VIII, his Gloucester and Winchester, or even his Maid of Orleans, resemble the originals whose names they bear?
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

And for proofe in this particular, Wee haue made your owne Meßengers conferre your other Petition, sent by you with the copie thereof, which was sent Vs before, betweene which there is no difference at all, but that since Our receiuing the first Copy you added a conclusion vnto it, which could not come to Our hands till it was done by you, and your Meßengers sent, which was all at one time.
— from His Maiesties Declaration, touching his Proceedings in the late Assemblie and Conuention of Parliament by King of England James I

It has not the right of requiring that the plan of studies in clerical seminaries shall be submitted to it.
— from The Pope, the Kings and the People A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council by William Arthur

Some years before he had put on record the sentiment: "It is God's will that whoever is born a subject should not reason but obey."
— from Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

The audacity of the outlaws roused the ire of these fierce native troopers, for the fact that several Spahis had been shot dead in the first moments of the attack, caused an unanimous resolve to follow up the thieves and give them no quarter.
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux

The elephants on reaching the water, pile up the logs on the bank, until the buyer or the agent has examined them.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

‘You know better than I do, they are not the friends but the foes of the people, that it is only as you have triumphed over them that you have become free, that the history of Toryism is a record of resistance to popular rights—’ ‘And precious freedom,’ said a socialist, who darted up from the mob, amidst cheers on every side.
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 2 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

On receiving this Representation, in which, it must be confessed, there was more of high spirit and dignity than of worldly wisdom, [Footnote: To the pure and dignified character of the Noble Whig associated in this Remonstrance, it is unnecessary for me to say how heartily I bear testimony.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore

‘My darling has been tempted to buy a share by that unbeliever Owlett,’ groaned the minister, his honest affection for Lizzy having quickened to its intensest point during these moments of risk to her person and name.
— from Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy