Put it down directly!"
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

¿Pero insistes después de mi negativa?...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The general was furious in his anger, and they parted in dreadful disagreement.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke, entail, operate; elicit, provoke.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The engineers then proceeded to inspect the Scotia , which had been put in dry dock.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

= KEY: Deliberate \a.\. SYN: Grave, purposed, intentional, designed, determined, resolute, earnest, unbiased, unprejudiced.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Nouveaux Prétendus Invisibles, dits de la Confrairie de la Croix-Rosaire, élevez depuis quelques années dans le Christianisme ," forming the second part of the " Histoire Générale de Progrès et Décadence de l'Héréie Moderne --
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

It was AGAINST Hume that Kant uprose and raised himself; it was Locke of whom Schelling RIGHTLY said, "JE MEPRISE LOCKE"; in the struggle against the English mechanical stultification of the world, Hegel and Schopenhauer (along with Goethe) were of one accord; the two hostile brother-geniuses in philosophy, who pushed in different directions towards the opposite poles of German thought, and thereby wronged each other as only brothers will do.—What is lacking in England, and has always been lacking, that half-actor and rhetorician knew well enough, the absurd muddle-head, Carlyle, who sought to conceal under passionate grimaces what he knew about himself: namely, what was LACKING in Carlyle—real POWER of intellect, real DEPTH of intellectual perception, in short, philosophy.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Proof is difficult: denial may be safety.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 by Various

Per entro se' l'etterna margarita ne ricevette, com'acqua recepe raggio di luce permanendo unita. S'io era corpo, e qui non si concepe com'una dimensione altra patio, ch'esser convien se corpo in corpo repe, accender ne dovria piu` il disio di veder quella essenza in che si vede come nostra natura e Dio s'unio.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

The countrey of Paraiua in danger dayly to be lost.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

Interviewer: Watt McKinney Person Interviewed: D. Davis R.F.D., six miles north of Marvell, Arkansas Age: 85 Uncle D. Davis, an ex-slave, 85 years of age lives some miles north of Marvell, Arkansas with a widowed daughter on a small farm the daughter owns.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Next she thought of borrowing the money from the Rothschilds, who had so much, or from the archbishop of Paris, whose mission it was to help persons in distress; darting thus from thought to thought, seeking help in all.
— from A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac

All those persons, like you and me, who have no property in District Dong-dong-dong, can now sit at home at ease;—and little need we think upon the mud above the knees of those who have property in that district and are running to look after it.
— from If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact by Edward Everett Hale