[A; c] 1 put a rope with a noose or loop around s.t. or ring
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

To establish the truth of the latter view, principles are requisite, which are not cosmological and do not proceed in the series of phenomena.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

'I felt that I must rouse myself to attempt something while roasting daily and nightly over a slow fire, to while away my torments; and I knew that, in the present state of the publishing and reading world, a novel is the most saleable article, so that—where ten pounds would be offered for a work, the production of which would require the utmost stretch of a man's intellect—two hundred pounds would be a refused offer for three volumes, whose composition would require the smoking of a cigar and the humming of a tune.
— from The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 2 of 2 by Francis A. Leyland

He is no more a gentleman now than when he began life, —not a whit more refined, either outwardly or inwardly; while the American would have been, after the same experience, not distinguishable outwardly, and perhaps as refined within, as nine tenths of the gentlemen born, in the House of Commons.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In addition to the works of poetry and romance, which are now the best known among the productions of his press, William Caxton issued also many books of devotion.
— from Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

But these considerations, after all, had not half so much effect upon him as the thought of his mother’s grave countenance when she should read his next letter, and the displeasure of his father, who perhaps already regarded with a not altogether satisfied eye the spectacle of a son of his gone abroad for his health.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Lord Kimberley, in 1889, intimated the readiness of his Government to afford advisory and other co-operation with the Transvaal Government in order to cope with the new element of foreign immigration, resulting from the discovery of the rich gold-fields, and to provide appropriate relations with a new floating population, without materially altering the status of Transvaal authority, or the methods of government then in practice.
— from Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by C. H. Thomas

Problems are raised which are not merely urgent in themselves, but which present wholly new alternatives to the metaphysician.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

The copious information which it presents, although reduced within a narrow compass, will be found to comprise most of the essential facts concerning the different topics treated, and from the diligence and candor evinced by the author, we have no doubt of its entire reliability.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

If I prick a rat with a needle, it may squeal, or bite, or jump—but it will not bark.
— from Anything You Can Do! by Randall Garrett