The fact that these imaginative suggestions are not constant does not impede the instant perception that they are actual, and for crude experience whatever a thing possesses in appearance it possesses indeed, no matter how soon that quality may be lost again.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

As soon as night came on, she slipped out of the house, and went into the wood, to the spot where the linden-tree stood; and after removing the leaves from the earth, she turned it up, and there found him who had been murdered.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

As Hartmann expresses it: “The prejudices arising from sensation, are not conscious judgments of the understanding but instinctively practical postulates, and are, therefore, very difficult to destroy, or even set aside by means of conscious consideration.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Four separate limbs did but two arms compose; Belly with chest, and legs with thighs did grow To members such as nought created shows.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

However, owing to the dispute, nothing had been settled as to when they should start; and night coming on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd took fright in a moment in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable; and persuaded that an army many times more numerous than that which had really arrived was advancing and all but upon them, suddenly broke and fled in the direction of home, and thus compelled Perdiccas, who at first did not perceive what had occurred, to depart without seeing Brasidas, the two armies being encamped at a considerable distance from each other.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The proposition is therefore not analytical, but synthetical, and nevertheless conceived a priori; and so it is with regard to the other propositions of the pure part of natural philosophy.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

See afterwards, NERO, c. 5.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The vicinity of the present towns of Norway and Leland, in eastern and northern La Salle County, became centers of a settlement, which later extended east into Kendall County (Newark and Lisbon) and into Grundy County toward Morris, as also north into DeKalb County (Rollo, Sandwich), and northwest clear into southwestern Lee County (Paw Paw, Sublette, and surrounding region).
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

And whatsoever contradicts my Sense, I hate to see, and never can believe.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But suddenly in the distance, they saw a great heap of tumultuous white water, and soon after news came from aloft that one or both the boats must be fast.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

"In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Science, Study and National Character, Albert B. Crowe , 90 ; and Fiction, 324 , 336 ; and Poetry, L. W. Smith, 546 .
— from The Popular Science Monthly, October, 1900 Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900 by Various

"No use talking" said he, in a low tone, as the bow hit the shore, "ain' no country luk this 'un, don' care where ye go."
— from D'Ri and I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British. Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. by Irving Bacheller

Trew critysism consists in giving a man credit for the good things he sez, and not cussin him for the good things he don't say.
— from Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things by Josh Billings

He played a few times on his flute while his cousin Lucy accompanied him on the piano; spent an hour or two in walking about the plantation; listened patiently, but without much interest, while Don and Bert talked of the various exciting and amusing incidents that had happened in the neighborhood during the war; and as soon as night came and he could find an opportunity to do so, he slipped away by himself.
— from The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt" by Harry Castlemon

Some want to select a new chief among [Pg 205] the young men and train him so that he will be ready when Ohto dies, others insist that Ahma—this girl—shall select a husband from among them and thus raise him automatically to chieftainship.
— from Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson

Two or three species are now common in some localities.
— from The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

I knew as members of the armed sections Schlomeker, a carpenter; Stahlbaum, a carpenter, lieutenant of the first company; Petschke, secretary of the same company; Kitgus; the Riemer brothers, one a carpenter and the other a painter; Ted, a carpenter; Rau, Bak, Hirschberger, the Hermann brothers, all members of the Lehr und Wehr Verein; the Hageman brothers; the Lehman brothers; Messenbrink, a carpenter; Stak, a tinsmith; Lauke, Feltes and Kraemer, all carpenters, and Siebach and Niendorf, carpenters, living in Lake View.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack