Experience consists in the synthetical connexion of phenomena (perceptions) in consciousness, so far as this connexion is necessary.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

They live in simple huts, ten or twelve feet square, constructed of pine poles and covered with bark.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The news filled her with the glow produced by a sudden cessation of physical pain.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

At this juncture, a neighbouring settler, who had recently come among us, offered to put in my small crop of peas, potatoes, and oats, in all not comprising more than eight acres, if I would lend him my oxen to log-up a large fallow of ten acres, and put in his own crops.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

[248] STUFFED CHICKEN [OR PIG] PULLUS FARSILIS
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

This last complaint was so characteristic of Pyotr Petrovitch, that Raskolnikov, pale with anger and with the effort of restraining it, could not help breaking into laughter.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By the symbolical changes of Philomela, Progne, and Tereus, those who framed this termination of the story intended to depict the different characters of the persons whose actions are there 245 VI. 677 represented.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

hēahgerēfa m. high sheriff, chief officer, proconsul, prefect , Æ. hēahgesamnung f. principal synagogue , Mk 5 22 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Amen: said my mother again——but with such a sighing cadence of personal pity at the end of it, as discomfited every fibre about my father—he instantly took out his almanack; but before he could untie it, Yorick ’s congregation coming out of church, became a full answer to one half of his business with it—and my 205 mother telling him it was a sacrament day—left him as little in doubt, as to the other part—He put his almanack into his pocket.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The ESCB shall contribute to the smooth conduct of policies pursued by the competent authorities relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions and the stability of the financial system.
— from The Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992 by European Union

In order to produce enough forgings to supply the finish-machining shops, an order for 50 jackets was later given to the Edgewater Steel Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa., where the jackets were forged.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

But at their worst estate the monks, or regular clergy, were no worse than the secular clergy, or parish priests, in their ordinary lives, and were more intelligent,—at least more learned.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

As a matter of fact, it is familiar to every member of the committee that people do not reproduce books that have fallen into the public domain by the expiry of the time of the copyright, except in very special cases of particularly popular works.
— from Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents

“The second condition of permanent political society has been found to be, the existence, in some form or other, of the feeling of allegiance or loyalty.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

The language itself was undergoing a process of "inarching," of blending, crossing, which left it the richest, both in positive vocabulary and in capacity for increasing that vocabulary at need, of any European speech; the possessor of a double prosody, quantitative and alliterative, which secured it from the slightest chance of poetic poverty or hide-boundness; relieved from the cumbrousness of synthetic accidence to all but the smallest extent, and in case to elaborate a syntax equally suitable for verse and prose, for exposition and narrative, for oratory and for argument.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

Lord Robert had hitherto appeared to him haughty, rude, and unfeeling; and Philip knew not that this spoiled child of prosperity possessed at times much sensibility, strong affections, and feelings, which, had they been properly directed, would have been conducive to the happiness of all around him; instead of which, his unchecked passions produced danger and inconvenience to all who, even unintentionally, irritated them, and misery to their unhappy possessor, far beyond what he had ever inflicted on others.
— from The Rival Crusoes; Or, The Ship Wreck Also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. by Agnes Strickland

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— from Our English Towns and Villages by H. R. Wilton Hall

The blade, entirely concealed in the case, is effectually protected from dirt and rust, and there are no sharp corners or projecting points to damage the pocket.
— from The Pansy, November 1886, Vol. 14 by Various