An hour passed pretty rapidly, but I began then to find the time rather long, and thinking that, perhaps, the attendant had not rightly understood me, I rang the bell, and enquired whether notice of my visit had being given to Sister M——
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This obliquity is caused by a change of place, performed rather by the internal than the external ring.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Now, here there comes in a notion of causality justified by the critique of the pure reason, although not capable of being presented empirically, viz., that of freedom; and if we can now discover means of proving that this property does in fact belong to the human will (and so to the will of all rational beings), then it will not only be shown that pure reason can be practical, but that it alone, and not reason empirically limited, is indubitably practical; consequently, we shall have to make a critical examination, not of pure practical reason, but only of practical reason generally.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons, because her rank and connections suited him; I felt he had not given her his love, and that her qualifications were ill adapted to win from him that treasure.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The summum bonum, then, practically is only possible on the supposition of the immortality of the soul; consequently this immortality, being inseparably connected with the moral law, is a postulate of pure practical reason (by which I mean a theoretical proposition, not demonstrable as such, but which is an inseparable result of an unconditional a priori practical law.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

"To Jo I leave my breast-pin, the one mended with sealing wax, also my bronze inkstand—she lost the cover—and my most precious plaster rabbit, because I am sorry I burnt up her story.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

He edited the New York International , a German propagandist paper run by the notorious George Silvester Viereck, and published, among other things, an obscene attack on the King and a glorification of the Kaiser.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Cum enim rex Pyrrhus populo Romano bellum ultro intulisset, cumque de imperio certamen esset cum rege generoso ac potenti, [341] perfuga ab eo venit in castra Fabrici eique est pollicitus, si praemium sibi proposuisset, se, ut clam venisset, sic clam in Pyrrhi castra rediturum et eum veneno necaturum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I observed to him, that a very dangerous experiment was then in contemplation, to defeat the Presidential election by an act of Congress declaring the right of the Senate to name a President of the Senate, to devolve on him the government during any interregnum: that such a measure would probably produce resistance by force, and incalculable consequences, which it would be in his power to prevent by negativing such an act.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

Tender memories were stirred to life, and visions of scenes in which they had played prominent parts rose before them.
— from At the Sign of the Silver Flagon by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Although many Americans clamored for war as a result of this incident, Jefferson, who still preferred peace, retaliated by having Congress pass the Embargo Act whereby no American ship could depart for any foreign port.
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

Shall the present perfect righteousness be rejected on account of the past sin, so absolutely and perfectly repented of?
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

At this particular period relations between Ismail and Zubeir were strained; the latter had complained of the unnecessarily heavy taxation, and had begged the Khedive's permission to be allowed to come to Cairo to personally assure His Highness of his loyalty and devotion.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

For I, perforce, must take my leave Of all my dainty cheer— Plum porridge, roast beef, and minced-pies, My strong ale and my beer.
— from The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History (Illustrated with over Fifty Quaint Cuts) by John Bickerdyke

Thus signally was their greediness to convert a national disaster into personal profit rebuked by the king.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

And sitting down again on a sandhill overgrown with wild grasses and mats of seathistle, the poor pale reformer began to draw out the details of his scheme on its material side.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.