In what propositions is pure reason unavoidably subject to an antinomy?
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The phenomena remain unexplained still, to the great satisfaction of those who revere moral miracles.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He congratulated Edgar warmly upon coming out of so serious a fracas with a whole skin, and strongly advised him, if he were still bent upon continuing his lessons with Gaspard, to choose a more public route until such time as the affair was likely to have been forgotten.
— from Edgar the Ready: A Tale of the Third Edward's Reign by W. P. Shervill

As this was by no means the case, the whole pamphlet rests upon sand: though in days when public opinion was guided not from the press but from the rostrum, many might have been won by the eloquence of Milton's 137 invectives against the inhuman pride and hollow ceremonial of kingship, and his encomiums of the simple order when the ruler's main distinction from the ruled is the severity of his toil.
— from Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

“Dear Pen, rouse up,” said this lady.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

His conclusion is:—"The police reports unanimously state that there has been a marked increase of late in the number of arrivals in this country."
— from The Alien Invasion by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

They however could paddle round us, so that we were obliged to sustain the attack without being able to return it, except with such stones as lodged in the boat, and in this I found we were very inferior to them.
— from A Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies by William Bligh

Nobody has time to inquire into natures, and the chinless must be content to be treated in something of the same good-natured, tolerant fashion in which we treat our poor relations until such time as they shall have grown a beard; and
— from The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth Von Arnim

"I cannot even begin to tell you what I endured these past three days, until at last, by dint of ruse and force, I was able to circumvent the villains who held you captive, and convey you hither in safety and profound respect until such time as I can find a suitable escort to take you back to your father."
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Mrs. Crumpe’s bell rang violently, and Patty ran up stairs to her room.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth