Removing with him and the old housekeeper to within a mile of the parsonage-house, where his dear friends resided, he gratified the only remaining wish of Oliver's warm and earnest heart, and thus linked together a little society, whose condition approached as nearly to one of perfect happiness as can ever be known in this changing world.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

But as a little reflection destroys this conclusion, that our perceptions have a continued existence, by shewing that they have a dependent one, it would naturally be expected, that we must altogether reject the opinion, that there is such a thing in nature as a continued existence, which is preserved even when it no longer appears to the senses.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Esperad, que tan buen pan hacen aquí como en Francia."
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only, that he nothing knew; The next to fabling fell and smooth conceits, A third sort doubted all things, though plain sence; Others in vertue plac'd felicity, But vertue joyn'd with riches and long life, In corporal pleasure he, and careless ease, The Stoic last in Philosophic pride, 300 By him call'd vertue; and his vertuous man, Wise, perfect in himself, and all possessing Equal to God, oft shames not to prefer, As fearing God nor man, contemning all Wealth, pleasure, pain or torment, death and life, Which when he lists, he leaves, or boasts he can, For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

They made out a number of big ants, whose still postures had a certain effect of watching them, dotted about the edge of the rude embarkation jetty.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In February, 1790, a "new coffee manufactory" began business at 4 Great Dock Street, New York, and the proprietor announced that he had provided himself at considerable expense with the proper utensils "to burn, grind and classify coffee on the European plan."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

These three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the right, a wall; and at the end, a wall.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The sparing quantity of lochia which has generally been observed, especially where the whole surface of the placenta has adhered, can easily be accounted for, the greater portion of the vessels which ordinarily furnish this discharge being closed up by the adherent mass: from the same reason we can explain why cases of total attachment of the placenta are rarely or never attended with hæmorrhage.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

It is not the will that declares, for example, that body is extended, that it is in space, that every phenomenon has a cause, etc.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

The judge may distort or delay the justice which he should render us; the lawyer may support an unjust demand; the merchant may help us to squander our estate, and, in a word, all those with whom we have to deal in common life may do us more or less injury; but to kill us without fear and standing quietly at his ease; unsheathing no other sword than that wrapped in the folds of a recipe, and without being subject to any danger of punishment, that can be done only by the physician; he alone can escape all fear of the discovery of his crimes, because at the moment of committing them he puts them under the earth.
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Phyllis has a cold, Ella cheeked Mademoiselle yesterday, and had to write out ’Little Girls must be polite and obedient’ a hundred times in French.
— from Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

A few days later, one or two successful flights having been made in the meanwhile, Jerry received an answer from the secretary of the Park Haven Aero Club, enclosing entry blanks.
— from The Motor Boys in the Clouds; or, A Trip for Fame and Fortune by Clarence Young

“A good many of the natives who are in clerical positions here are crooked enough to live in a corkscrew.
— from The Flying Machine Boys in the Wilds; Or, The Mystery of the Andes by Frank Walton

Yet if she had entered before a still audience as Imogene or Cato's daughter, the dress might have seemed right enough: the grace and dignity were in her limbs and neck; and about her simply parted hair and candid eyes the large round poke which was then in the fate of women, seemed no more odd as a head-dress than the gold trencher we call a halo.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot