Whether this is due to the manifest superiority of Catholicism or to the inconsequential and illogical inconsistency in the brains of the yellow race, a profound study of anthropology alone will be able to elucidate.” Ben-Zayb had adopted the tone of a lecturer and was describing circles in the air with his forefinger, priding himself on his imagination, which from the most insignificant facts could deduce so many applications and inferences.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Sense, perception, judgment, desire, volition, memory, imagination, are found to be separated by such delicate shades and minute gradations that their boundaries have eluded the most subtle investigations, and remain a pregnant source of ingenious disquisition and controversy.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Especially was he interested in Hebrew history and the present social, religious and political status of Israel.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

In the three-year instance, it so fell out that I was in the boat both times, first and last, and the last time distinctly recognised a peculiar sort of huge mole under the whale’s eye, which I had observed there three years previous.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

There when they saw the soldiers on the rampart, and persons sent out to reconnoitre in every direction, brought back word into how narrow a compass the camp had been contracted, inferring thence the scanty number of the enemy.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

“Regulars” are permanent sources of news, like courts, bullion returns, “clean-ups” at the quartz mills, and inquests.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

I must own this is really a pretty sort of a trick, but it sha'n't do thy business, for all that.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

“But I tell you positively again that I am going to Petersburg only to sniff round, and perhaps shall only be there for twenty-four hours and then back here again at once.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They discovered in the ranks a private soldier of the name of Constantine, and their impetuous levity had already seated him on the throne, before they perceived his incapacity to sustain the weight of that glorious appellation.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As they were being built at a dozen different points, and we had but seven guns, before we could reload, a particular schanz, of which perhaps the first builders had fallen, would be raised so high that our slugs could no longer hurt those who lay behind it.
— from Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

In an instant Gimblet’s keen nose had told him that with the clerk there now entered the room a pervading smell of brandy, and his quick eye noted a tinge of colour in the pale cheek of the young man, which had previously not been visible there.
— from Mrs. Vanderstein's jewels by Bryce, Charles, Mrs.

That night he got possession of his rifle and pack, slipped out of the hospital, made his way back to his command and stayed there."
— from Elsie's Winter Trip by Martha Finley

H o rminóde, a precious stone of the colour of Clarie, with a circle of a golden colour about it.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

These portraits at once proclaimed to me the religious and patriotic sentiments of the proprietor of the house.
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

The ladies and courtiers were all most magnificently clad; so that the spot they stood upon seemed to resemble a petticoat spread on the ground, embroidered with figures of gold and silver.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Believing that all mineral fossils were never living animals at all, but the types simply of animals that were to be, stamped instantaneously upon the rocks as prophetic symbols of a work of creation to be afterward accomplished, he is prepared to hear without surprise that man should some day be found as a fossil.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

He sought to widen the domain of pleasure, and narrow that of pain, and regarded a passionless state of life the highest.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord