If your ladyship would wish to have the boy produced in corroboration of this statement, I can lay my hand upon him at any time."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The principal matter of his wonderful powder is composed of simples, principally the herbs Lunaria major and minor .
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

SOCRATES: Not so, my simple friend, but because you will refute me after the manner which rhetoricians practise in courts of law.
— from Gorgias by Plato

She had recently left her place in consequence of a disagreement with her mistress, and she was lodging with some people in the neighbourhood whom Mrs. Gould knew.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

One branch of the legislative department forms also a great constitutional council to the executive chief, as, on another hand, it is the sole depositary of judicial power in cases of impeachment, and is invested with the supreme appellate jurisdiction in all other cases.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

So long as the same plastic impulse continues operative it will be accompanied by knowledge and criticism of its happy results.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

At this its highest grade the will objectifies itself in an individual; and therefore through circumstances and its own power it completely overcomes all the hindrances and opposition which the phenomena of the lower grades present to it.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

He was wandering through it in a leisurely fashion when, suddenly, as he turned the [Pg i] corner of a street that was protected on either side by lofty stone walls, he heard a roaring noise, as of thunder, which seemed to come from the immediate neighbourhood.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Actresses do not grow old, partly in consequence of their constant attention to the toilette, partly in consequence of the fact that they have hope and ambition, and enough occupation and enough rest, and do not worry over trifles.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

The volume from which this edition is printed consists of one hundred pages in crown octavo, with a very rude cut of Ruth and Boaz.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

As our ship passes out into the night, the port and starboard 6-⁠inch batteries are fully manned and loaded, and up on the compass platform, in control of these batteries, are two young officers—a subaltern of Marines and a naval sub-lieutenant—to each of whom is allotted one of the batteries.
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone

Close acquaintance with the library’s policy in regard to book-saving and book-buying and of its attitude toward the demand for popular and ephemeral fiction; knowledge of its reference work; of the amount of handling its books receive by the public, and of its financial condition and policy—all this and much besides the person in charge of binding should have before she can make wise decisions.
— from Notes on Bookbinding for Libraries by John Cotton Dana

Although in these memoirs I do not propose to speak of politics (not feeling equal to it), I wish to touch on the great events that produced the revolution of '48, as they were one of the causes of interruption in my art; and even in politics, in consequence of the turn things were taking, I found myself set aside.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

Of the 2,750 million dollars required for the fund, 1,800 million dollars will be provided in cash or notes from the exchange stabilization fund established under the Gold Reserve Act of 1934.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

"But, after all," he added, as we were about to part, "I could only hint at these things, for it takes a very learned man to prove the value of ignorance."
— from Discourses of Keidansky by Bernard G. Richards

The plant is composed of much-branched, slender filaments, closely resembling Cladophora in structure, but with smaller cells ( Fig. 29 , B ).
— from Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell

When defeat has followed defeat, with exasperating regularity, the government gradually awakes to the fact that the most criminal thing it can do is to place a politician in charge of a body of brave men, or to appoint a callow youth to the same position, merely because his father was a good soldier and has become a politician.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

They are strengthened by a considerable defection from the patriots, in consequence of the general suppression of the abuses of the 4th of August, in which many were interested.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson