pr. sufficient or adequate in one's self
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

I am afraid, if the real truth is to be told, there was, perhaps, something of affectation in the anxiety this young lady expressed to make George's acquaintance; but if poor Alicia for a moment calculated upon arousing any latent spark of jealousy lurking in her cousin's breast by this exhibition of interest, she was not so well acquainted with Robert Audley's disposition as she might have been.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Oh, my friend, marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The popular system of administration inherent in the nature of popular government, coinciding with the real scarcity of money incident to a languid and mutilated state of trade, has hitherto defeated every experiment for extensive collections, and has at length taught the different legislatures the folly of attempting them.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The next day we reached Brandon, and on the 9th Morton, where we perceived signs of an infantry concentration, but the enemy did not give us battle, and retreated before us.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

Any possible state of anarchy is better than organized crime, because in the chaos of anarchy justice may be done by accident, but in a government organized for the perpetuation of slavery, and for the purpose of crushing out of the human brain every noble thought, justice does not live.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

Having returned, he made up his mind to emigrate to Canada, and communicated his resolution as follows: “I arrived here eight days from the time I parted with you (at Philadelphia) and found my family well, and after being sufficiently affrighted, the enemy having been within twenty miles of this place, and within one mile of my house in the country, considering the present state of affairs in this part of the Province, I am fully persuaded that I cannot possibly live here secure, either in regard to ourselves or property during the ensuing season; this place is likely to be a frontier, and will probably be burnt if the enemy can effect it.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

The procession set out, and I soon began to feel thankful for my seat, though I took no ease in it.
— from The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

At last, when Owen perceived some oppressive act in his father’s conduct toward his dependants, or some unaccountable thwarting of his own wishes, he fancied he saw his stepmother’s secret influence thus displayed, however much she might regret the injustice of his father’s actions in her conversations with him when they were alone.
— from The Doom of the Griffiths by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

They accuse relativists—and we pragmatists are typical relativists—of being debarred by their self-adopted principles, not only from the privilege which rationalist philosophers enjoy, of believing that these principles of their own are truth impersonal and absolute, but even of framing the abstract notion of such a truth, in the pragmatic sense, of an ideal opinion in which all men might agree, and which no man should ever wish to change.
— from The Meaning of Truth by William James

This was Mr. Julius Stenhouse, the principal solicitor of an important county town in Yorkshire—a man who had been bred in Mr. Pouncet’s office, had suddenly, to everybody’s amazement, become his partner, and who, as suddenly, a few years after had left Kenlisle for his present residence.
— from The House on the Moor, v. 2/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Such was the effect of the intercourse of Anaxagoras with Pericles, of Plato with Dion, and of Pythagoras with the principal statesmen of all Italy.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

In the second place we see that a knowledge of the correlation between length and weight in any particular species of animal, in other words a determination of k in the formula W = k · L  3 , enables us at any time to translate the one magnitude into the other, and (so to speak) to weigh the animal with a measuring-rod; this however being always subject to the condition that the animal shall in no way have altered its form, nor its specific gravity.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

The bo'sun's pipe shrilled out, and in a moment the ship that had seemed to slumber there, awoke to life.
— from Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini