But if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience? this implies a new question, which may be of more difficult solution and explication.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

It is the depressed and suffering condition of our sex, here indicated, which is the exciting cause of the agitation to gain woman suffrage.
— from Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator, with Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage by Catharine Esther Beecher

The deputation asked for legislation restricting the labor of school children out of school hours.
— from Our Schools in War Time—and After by Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) Dean

No one will pretend that there is not vicious love beneath the surface of our society; if he did, the fetid explosions of the divorce trials would refute him; but if he pretended that it was in any just sense characteristic of our society, he could be still more easily refuted.
— from Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells

I have not seen six cabins out of six hundred, where the windows have been whole.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

How can I ever repay you, ever love and honor you enough for such care of one so helpless and forlorn as I?”
— from Pauline's Passion and Punishment by Louisa May Alcott