I went in front, sir, to the back of the pit, and whenever his reading brought him into profile, I called out “I don't see no wafers!”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[“For they throw themselves headlong when once they lose their reason; and infirmity so far indulges itself, and from want of prudence is carried out into deep water, nor finds a place to shelter it.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

xxx CONNECTION BETWEEN THE /page often when I placed my foot on what appeared externally to be the solid trunk of a tree, I have found it yield to the pressure, in consequence of its decomposition into absolute rottenness.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete by Charles Sturt

But at the same time it is quite as evident, and equally borne out by the history of all modern countries, that the agricultural population, in consequence of its dispersion over a great space, and of the difficulty of bringing about an agreement among any considerable portion of it, never can attempt [Pg 26] a successful independent movement; they require the initiatory impulse of the more concentrated, more enlightened, more easily moved people of the towns.
— from Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848 by Friedrich Engels

I do not wish to tax your credulity, Doctor, and yet I will ask you to believe that so nearly approached the types of these two gentlemen that the sensibilities predominant in Claud obtained in Dixie to an extent where he, too, felt the fall of Deshay, and when he had found the eggs and we starving wretches shambled up to the cache, Dixie, the fine, thoroughbred, peace-loving aristocrat, stood over his find with bared fangs and flashing eyes and allowed all to approach but Deshay.
— from The Mountain of Fears by Henry C. (Henry Cottrell) Rowland

“I recognize that the great majority of the population is conscious of its duty, which is to help the authorities in their unremitting effort to maintain calm and order in the country in the interest of this population.”
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

Perhaps in certain of its details this institution must be an anachronism, a survival from times to which it may have been well suited when the development of womanhood was habitually stunted, but inadequate to satisfy the demands of fully developed womanhood in our own days.
— from Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

Accordingly he sold his copyright: that is to say, he taught his cantar to reciters, who paid in cash, or in drink, when they had it
— from A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

They did not pass into confused or inferior decorations; neither were they adorned with any evidences of skill or science, such as might withdraw the attention from their subjects.
— from Stones of Venice [introductions] by John Ruskin

The earth is flattened at the poles, as is well imagined by some of the human philosophers, in consequence of its diurnal movement commencing while the ball was still in a state of fusion, which naturally threw off a portion of the unkneaded matter towards the periphery.
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper