Otherwise, everything else as regards all possible experience remains just as if I had not departed from the vulgar view.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

With an impulsive gesture Christie stretched her hands to the friends about her, and with one accord they laid theirs on hers, a loving league of sisters, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, each ready to do her part to hasten the coming of the happy end.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Even now hostile voices are being raised against philosophy, exclaiming: “Return to science, to nature, and the naturalness of science!” and thus an age may begin which may discover the most powerful beauty precisely in the “savage and ugly” domains of science, just as it is only since the time of Rousseau that we have discovered the sense for the beauty of high mountains and deserts.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A Well-taken Law Point Mutilating Records A Palpable Erasure Relics of the Donner Party Five Hundred Articles Buried Thirty-two Years Knives, Forks, Spoons Pretty Porcelain Identifying Chinaware Beads and Arrow-heads A Quaint Bridle-bit Remarkable Action of
— from History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

On 14th March I drew out the following orders for Major Abdullah, who would remain as commandant of Fatiko:— "1. Observe the rules at present existing respecting sentries.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

“Well, she’s rather a problem,” Ellery replied.
— from Jewel Weed by Alice Ames Winter

(c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be construed as-- (1) a requirement to replace any preparedness, emergency response, or business continuity standards, requirements, or best practices established-- (A) under any other provision of federal law; or (B) by any sector-specific agency, as those agencies are defined under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-7; or (2) exempting any private sector entity seeking certification or meeting certification requirements under subsection (b) from compliance with all applicable statutes, regulations, directives, policies, and industry codes of practice.
— from Homeland Security Act of 2002 Updated Through October 14, 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

But a majority of the convention, he said, being wise beyond every event, and being willing to risk any political evil rather than admit the idea of a paper emission in any possible case , refused to trust the authority to a government to which they were lavishing the most unlimited powers of taxation, and to the mercy of which they were willing blindly to trust the liberty and property of the citizens of every state in the Union, and "they erased that clause from the system ."
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

It was a critical moment; for, if Halkett had been beaten, Donzelot’s troops would have flanked Maitland’s brigade, and, attacked as it then would have been, on front and flank, it would have been forced to retire, and perhaps even routed.
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes

He leaves the whole of his real and personal estate, representing a sum of at least seventy thousand pounds, to his nephew, Robert Angus Kirkwood——" "Lucky dog!" interposed the irrepressible Fuller.
— from Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S.: A Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Same date—First and only time on record a politician ever refused to take anything.
— from The Foolish Almanak for Anuthur Year The Furst Cinc the Introdukshun ov the Muk-rake in Magazeen Gardning, and the Speling Reform ov Owr Langwij by Theodor Rosyfelt by Various

Paul Revere, a patriotic engraver, rode far in advance of the troops to warn the people of their coming.
— from The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann