Still we may perhaps reduce the calculation within manageable limits, without serious loss of accuracy, by discarding all manifestly imprudent conduct, and neglecting the less probable and less important contingencies; as we do in some of the arts that have more definite ends, such as strategy and medicine.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The Professor repeated the conversation, and she said:— “Then there is not a moment to lose: it may not be yet too late!”
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the northwest turned the Great Dipper with its pointers round the Cynosure.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But he makes no reference to any sect or religious order by the title of Christian—a strong inferential evidence, upon sound priori reasoning, that Christianity as yet was sailing under another name.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Boldwood, who was apparently determined by personal rather than commercial reasons, suggested that Oak should be furnished with a horse for his sole use, when the plan would present no difficulty, the two farms lying side by side.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Ah! you will find many prejudices to combat, Monsieur Bovary, much obstinacy of routine, with which all the efforts of your science will daily come into collision; for people still have recourse to novenas, to relics, to the priest, rather than come straight to the doctor or the chemist.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

If we connect with the command to avoid all transcendent judgments of pure reason, the command (which apparently conflicts with it) to proceed to concepts that lie beyond the field of its immanent (empirical) use, we discover that both can subsist together, but only at the boundary of all lawful use of reason.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

1598—The first printed reference to coffee in English appears as chaoua in a note of Paludanus in Linschoten's Travels , translated from the Dutch, and published in London.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

(348) He forbad the revels of the charioteers, who had long assumed a licence to stroll about, and established for themselves a kind of prescriptive right to cheat and thieve, making a jest of it.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

325 “It has to be held in a desarted house,” Pendrilla reiterated the condition.
— from Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

He says that poetry is "nothing but imitation"; that children, with their great imitative powers, are poets; and that primitive races, the children of mankind, were also sublime poets.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

When the man was gone, Sir Hervey smoothed the paper, and, with a face that grew darker and darker as he proceeded, read the contents of the letter from beginning to end.
— from Sophia: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

As I was only the second lady who had been unfortunate enough to come under his keeping, the Governor very politely resolved to commence his arrangements by providing me with as good a cell as he had then vacant—not that he called the space into which he was about to consign me, a cachot —by no means—the word “cell” being somewhat grating, another term has been invented; and the dens of the Lazaretto of Orsova are designated colleves , which signifies—nothing.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

The place referred to cannot at any rate be the well- known Eion at the mouth of the Strymon in Thrace.
— from Hellenica by Xenophon

As has already been stated, the wider problem concerning the principle of causality is developed only in the Treatise ; the problem regarding the concept of causality is discussed both in the Treatise and in the Enquiry .
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

He found her in a mood no less cheerful than before; and although she purposely averted her face, a smile, the [125] meaning of which he could not define, played round the corner of her expressive mouth.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

The intelligence of the discovery of New South Shetland, and that its coasts abounded in Spermaceti whales, and in seals, quickly and powerfully roused the commercial enterprise both of the British and the Americans.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

" Mrs. Carroll instantly recovered her temper, changed the subject, and privately resolved to confine her prejudices to her own bosom, as they seemed to have an aggravating effect upon the youthful person whom she had set her heart on disposing of to the best advantage.
— from A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott

“Keep out of way of Pottawattamie,” returned the Chippewa; “no want to lose scalp-radder take his'n.”
— from Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper