But few men, and especially few men of Soames' class, had imagination enough for that.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Should a Mason neglect to avail himself of his privilege, he forfeits it (unless, upon sufficient cause, he is excused by the lodge), and must submit to a ballot.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

This fact, together with the opportunity for reflection afforded by solitary confinement, had its effect—its natural effect.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

We must not attribute to causes inadequate or altogether without force, effects which require to explain them a reference to more influential causes; and even if these slighter causes had in effect a manifest influence, we must not forget that they are themselves the effect of a primary, a higher, and more extensive cause, which, in giving to the mind and to the character a more disinterested and more humane bias, disposed men to second or themselves to advance, by their conduct, and by the change of manners, the happy results which it tended to produce.—G. I have retained the whole of M. Guizot's note, though, in his zeal for the invaluable blessings of freedom and Christianity, he has done Gibbon injustice.
— 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

He is wholly animated from her breath, his soul lives in her body, [5328] sola claves habet interitus et salutis , she keeps the keys of his life: his fortune ebbs and flows with her favour, a gracious or bad aspect turns him up or down, Mens mea lucescit Lucia luce tua .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She said that you said she could have it entirely to her own idea, and that he was just to carry out her instructions; but, as he points out, you can’t have a room in a house as if the rest of the house wasn’t there, even if it is your own room.
— from They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

But when or at what time soeuer she became hostage, this we find of hir, that she came hither into England with hir husband Palingus, a mightie earle, and receiued Wil.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed

The specific character however is expected to be a 'mark' only: that is to say it is to be in behoof only of the purely subjective cognition which is external to the object.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It may be as well to inform the reader that the said conjuror had in early life been taken prisoner by the Pawnees, with a party of whom he had been conveyed to a great council held with the Indian agents at St. Charles’s, in Missouri, respecting the cession and appropriation of territory.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

I knew nothing but good of the lad; and you liked him too; Helen told me you had specially charged her, if ever she had an opportunity, to be kind to him."
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik