They went to all the theatres; Edward, on his rare visits to London, had done his sightseeing economically, and the purchase of stalls, the getting into dress-clothes, were new sensations which caused him great pleasure.
— from Mrs. Craddock by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

But still before the squire's eyes arose the picture of Stamboul tearing the throat of the man he had killed in the Belgrade forest.
— from A Tale of a Lonely Parish by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

On the surface of Nature, so to speak, Chance ranges unchecked, and that contingency must simply be recognised, without the pretension sometimes erroneously ascribed to philosophy, of seeking to find in it a could-only-be-so-and-not-otherwise.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel