It was a perfect picture of justice retired from business for want of customers; her sword and scales sold off; napping comfortably with her legs upon the table.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

The possibility of such a supersensible system of nature, the conception of which can also be the ground of its reality through our own free will, does not require any a priori intuition (of an intelligible world) which, being in this case supersensible, would be impossible for us.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

If so early the sense of vision is neglected and relegated to be the handmaiden of other senses, it is no wonder that in the average adult it is in such a shocking state of neglect.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Religious Enthusiasm In the early years of the child's life, the mother is usually the one to decide whether he shall attend Sunday School or not, but as he approaches adolescence he is likely to take the matter in his own hands, and if it happens that some revivalist or a new stirring preacher comes in contact with his life at this time, he is very likely to be swept off his feet with a sudden zeal of religious enthusiasm, which his mother fears to check.
— from Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne

Here Marie paused, for she felt that on such a subject she ought not to converse with a stranger.
— from Away in the Wilderness by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

We then left the moraine and made a very good march on rough blue ice all day with very small and scarce scraps of névé, on one of which we camped for the night with a rather overcast foggy sky, which cleared to bright sun in the night.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Further, we can only realize to a very imperfect degree the common distinction between (Greek), and the combination of the two suggests a subtle shade of negation which cannot be expressed in English.
— from Charmides by Plato

When the committee under whose auspices he was to speak waited upon him, they found him dressed in a sleek and shining suit of new black, covered with very apparent creases and wrinkles, acquired by being packed too closely and too long in his little valise.
— from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward Hill Lamon

'He is a deuce of a man, that, for breaking people's hedges,' observed Mr. Peastraw; after a pause, 'he can't see a straight stick of no sort, but he's sure to be at it.'
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees