For my soul, being a real being as well as my body, is certainly as capable of changing distance with any other body, or being, as body itself; and so is capable of motion.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

The worthy gentleman then became once more the life and soul of the society; being again reinstated in his old post of lion, from which high station the temporary distraction of their thoughts had for a moment dispossessed him.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

By getting Sue back and remarrying her on the respectable plea of having entertained erroneous views of her, and gained his divorce wrongfully, he might acquire some comfort, resume his old courses, perhaps return to the Shaston school, if not even to the Church as a licentiate.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I shall be all right on a loaded cart....”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

As there was no opening, saving a little narrow loop-hole, the place would have been nearly quite dark but for two flambeaux or torches, which showed, by a red and smoky light, the arched roof and naked walls, the rude altar of stone, and the crucifix of the same material.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Here when the Queen demanded as by chance 'Know ye the stranger woman?' 'Let her be,' Said Lancelot and unhooded casting off The goodly falcon free; she towered; her bells, Tone under tone, shrilled; and they lifted up Their eager faces, wondering at the strength, Boldness and royal knighthood of the bird Who pounced her quarry and slew it.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

He advises them of Napoleon's plans to seize Berlin and relieve Dantzic [see letter to Ney, No. 19,714, 20,006, and especially 20,360 (August 12th) in Correspondence].
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Here the lady bought them some buns and rolls, which they eagerly devoured, but to their infinite disappointment they found they were not to stay here.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

So they said of him, and from far and wide people came to him, sent for him when they had any one ill, and gave him so much money that he soon became a rich man.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

So, as he waited for Delphine, in the pretty boudoir, where he felt that he had a certain right to be, he felt himself so far away from the Rastignac who came back to Paris a year ago, that, turning some power of inner vision upon this latter, he asked himself whether that past self bore any resemblance to the Rastignac of that moment.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Hence it would follow that there is no intrinsic reason why man rather than the bat should be a rational creature.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

It seems to me best that our alliance should be as real a thing as possible."
— from A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

We must admit that we fail to find any further reference to the future happiness of couples in our copy; perhaps it is to be secured by a regular supply of the newspaper, so that those already done for may see how the remaining lovers are getting on.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

The fragrance of spring was in the air, and through the fortnight that she stayed at The Cedars, it seemed to her that this inescapable sweetness became a reminder and a torture—a reminder of the beauty and the evanescence of youth, a torture to all the sensitive nerves of her imagination, which conjured up delusive visions of happiness.
— from The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

But you may ask, Did not the tables of stone bear a record of specific commandments, rather than of articles of a covenant?
— from The Covenant of Salt As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

Three days later they had passed Cape Datu, and brought up for two days in Serabang bay and read the Ruah Selamat.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

He was easily governed, after they were seated, by a rope which passed through the cartilage of the nose.
— from Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4 by Edmund Roberts

Sure enough, in due time Bisbee received a personal letter from the Adjutant General of the Army, complimenting him on the most perfect monthly returns ever submitted by any regular regiment.
— from My Story by Anson Mills

We have also told what arrangements the worthy pair made in regard to prosecuting the search and dividing the spoils after the barrel was found, and we know that when the interview was ended Clarence went home happy in the belief that he would soon be a rich man, and that no one under his uncle’s roof, not even his brother Marshall, would be the wiser for it.
— from The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt" by Harry Castlemon

But, what was more trying still, no sooner had he got out of Peacepool, than there came running to him all the conjurors, fortune-tellers, astrologers, prophesiers, projectors, prestigiators, as many as were in those parts (and there are too many of them everywhere), all bawling and screaming at him, "Look a-head, only look a-head; and we will show you what man never saw before, and right away to the end of the world!"
— from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley