“Is Paul Ivanovitch leaving us so soon, dearest Lizanka?”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Since, therefore, external objects as they appear to the senses, give us no idea of power or necessary connexion, by their operation in particular instances, let us see, whether this idea be derived from reflection on the operations of our own minds, and be copied from any internal impression.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

They would feel it a relief if they might bury it out of their sight by popping it into their own mouths and swallowing it down; and they are really made happy if the person on whose plate it lies unused suddenly breaks off a piece of toast (which he does not want at all) and eats up his butter.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Following this method in the present instance, let us speak of the states which are respectively first, second, and third in excellence, and then we will leave the choice to Cleinias now, or to any one else who may hereafter have to make a similar choice among constitutions, and may desire to give to his state some feature which is congenial to him and which he approves in his own country.
— from Laws by Plato

So enraged was this ferocious monster at the escape of my sister that she ground her fangs viciously together, and vowed to take no pleasure in life until she held in her devouring jaws the innocent little mouse which belonged to the mangled bit of tail she even then clutched in her remorseless claws."
— from A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Eugene Field

As this liability is real and must be met, so far as the depositors at any time see fit to press it, let us suppose that depositors call for cash to the amount of $15,000, and we shall have a further change in the account as follows: Liabilities Capital $100,000 Undivided profits 1,350 Deposits 73,650 ——— $175,000 Resources Loans $90,000 Real estate, etc 5,000 Specie 80,000 ——— $175,000
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

There were no casements in the wide windows; the heavy shutters were thrown back, and the moonlight poured, in long, unbroken streams, across the polished, un-carpeted floor.
— from The Babes in the Basket; or, Daph and Her Charge by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker

There are shown opposite four lights out of a large window in the clerestory of the cathedral at Troyes, in which the history of the Prodigal Son is pictured in little upright subjects, framed in canopies of quite modest proportions and of colour which in no wise keeps them separate from the richly coloured figures [Pg 195] underneath.
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

Extended conquests reversed the process, and in conquered provinces immigrants living under Salic law became strangers amongst vicini living under Roman, Burgundian, or Wisigothic law.
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm

Soon it will be their work to do this unaided, and every bit of supervised practice is laying up stores of experience for the future.
— from Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India A Study of Conditions among Women in India by Alice B. (Alice Boucher) Van Doren

This sounds very badly as Mr. Fish puts it; let us see how it stands in its proper connection:— "He [Lord Clarendon] added with some feeling, that in his opinion it would be highly objectionable that the question should be hung up on a peg, to be taken down at some convenient moment for us, when it might be difficult for the British government to enter upon its solution, and when they might go into the debate at a disadvantage.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

O monarch, furnished with the choicest qualities, Rāma having truth for prowess is like unto Sakrā's self; and he towereth above Ikshwāku and all.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

They would feel it a relief if they might bury it out of their sight by popping it into their own mouths and swallowing it down; and they are really made happy if the person on whose plate it lies unused, suddenly breaks off a piece of toast (which he does not want at all) and eats up his butter.
— from Mrs. Gaskell by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Thus he spends his time as Children do at Puppet-Shows, and with much the same Advantage, in staring and gaping at an amazing Variety of strange things: strange indeed to one who is not prepared to comprehend the Reasons and Meaning of them; whilst he should be laying the solid Foundations of Knowledge in his Mind, and furnishing it with just Rules to direct his future Progress in Life under some skilful Master of the Art of Instruction.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir