It alone is able really to remove the inborn realism which proceeds from the original character of the intellect, which neither Berkeley nor Malebranche succeed in doing, for they remain too much in the universal, while Kant goes into the particular, and indeed in a way that is quite unexampled both before and after him, and which has quite a peculiar, and, we might say, immediate effect upon the mind in consequence of which it undergoes a complete undeception, and forthwith looks at all things in another light.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

………… Dec. 25, 1635 Settlement formed at Sillery ………………………… 1637 A Royal Government formed at Quebec ………………….. 1663 Quebec unsuccessfully besieged by Admiral Phipps ……….
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

Just then Harry slipped quietly up behind Bert and pushed him into the water.
— from The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook by Laura Lee Hope

On being pressed by us all, with the exception of M. de Talleyrand, who still wished to leave the question undecided between Bonaparte and Louis XVIII., Alexander at length declared that he would no longer treat with Napoleon.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various