When winds tempestuous heave the liquid plain.” Very often, as I am apt to do, having for exercise taken to maintain an opinion contrary to my own, my mind, bending and applying itself that way, does so engage me that way that I no more discern the reason of my former belief, and forsake it I am, as it were, misled by the side to which I incline, be it what it will, and carried away by my own weight.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The hand-writing, too, should be good; and I cannot conceive why it is ever otherwise, since every man may, certainly, write whatever hand he pleases.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Next comes Antigonea 2443 , Europus 2444 upon the river Axius, and another place of the same name by which the Rhœdias flows, Scydra, Eordæa, Mieza, and Gordyniæ.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Die schlechten Nebenerscheinungen der elektronischen Post: schlecht erzogene Menschen, die von der Distanz
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

So that during this month I have taken one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight mixtures, and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve clysters; and last month there were twelve mixtures and twenty clysters.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

However, there are some exceptions made by the divine authority to its own law, that men may not be put to death.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

She began to do so during a stay of some weeks which she eventually made with her aunt in Paris, though in ways that will inevitably present themselves as trivial.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

'His family was known to my father,' said Emily modestly, and without appearing to be sensible of the last sentence.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"Some day I may tell you, but not now, except this—that I love the sea, and I shall end my days where, when I open my gates, my eyes may rest upon it ... where its storms may beat upon my roof, and where the men about me shall sail it, and get their living from it.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

The enemy appeared to have had some excellent marksmen.
— from The Defence of Lucknow A Diary Recording the Daily Events during the Siege of the European Residency, from 31st May to 25th September, 1857 by T. F. (Thomas Fourness) Wilson

she exclaimed, much disappointed.
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm by Laura Lee Hope

‘Is not that a simple enough mowing-machine for you?’
— from Lamia's Winter-Quarters by Alfred Austin

Thus Kant speaks of the “mere concept,” [1318] and in doing so evidently means to imply that it exists in its own right, with a nature determined solely by intrinsic factors of a strictly a priori character, in complete independence of the specific material of sense-experience.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

S' 'elp me he was.
— from In the Library The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 6. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

[Sebastian EBAO]; many less important parties Cook Islands Cook Islands Party or CIP [Henry PUNA]; Democratic Party or Demo [Dr. Terepai MAOATE] Costa Rica Authentic Member from Heredia
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"For mercy's sake!" exclaimed Minnie, "tell me, my good father (for such indeed you have been to me,) what Tremenhere did you know—the name is so uncommon?" "One," he answered, "whom you cannot have known, at least I think not, for he had no daughter—only one child—a son."
— from Miles Tremenhere: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 2 by Annette Marie Maillard

Her probing attention, however, he so entirely misunderstood that it gave him no small encouragement; and thus becoming only the more eager after her good opinion, he came at length to imagine himself heartily in love with her—a thing impossible to him with any woman—and at last, emboldened by the fancied importance of his position, and his own fancied distinction in it, he ventured an offer of his feeble hand and feebler heart;—but only to have them, to his surprise, definitely and absolutely refused.
— from Salted with Fire by George MacDonald