[Thus, the Proposition “Some rich men are invalids” is to be understood as asserting that some existing Things are “rich invalids”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

—Segismund, Segismund, Prince Segismund! —Our own King Segismund, etc. (They all rise.) SEG.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

What were the features of this modern Confucian philosophy, which the Japanese Samurai exalted to a religion?
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Here we arrange thus:— “Some | existing Things | are | rich bankers”; and “No | existing Things | are | poor bankers.”
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

She reproached herself with the crime of his death; guilt and its punishments appeared to surround her; in vain she endeavoured to allay remorse by the memory of her real integrity; the rest of the world, and she among them, judged of her actions, by their consequences.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Many very respectable people make an honest living out of what are called sensation stories," said Jo, scratching gathers so energetically that a row of little slits followed her pin.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The AngloÐSaxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the AngloÐSaxon race.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

When they are grown tall and strong enough they are rewarded with wives from the female servants of the harem, and then are admitted partners in these bloody ventures.
— from In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

To this Judge Douglas answered that the Utah and New Mexico laws also authorized it before; and to prove this he read from one of their laws, as follows: "That the legislative power of said Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

The senseless mode of existence, the superfluous education: these artificial restrictions.
— from Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch by Michael Moukhanoff

One last element in the influence of Carlyle ought to be mentioned; because it very strongly dominated his disciples—especially Kingsley, and to some extent Tennyson and Ruskin.
— from The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Yet, in little more than ten years, American mills were selling agricultural machinery in that same English town, American rails were displacing the English product in all parts of the world, American locomotives were drawing English trains on English railways, and American steel bridges were spanning the Ganges and the Nile.
— from The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry by Burton Jesse Hendrick

Itaque si notiones ipsæ, id quod basis rei est, confusæ sint, et temerè a rebus abstraetæ, nihil in iis quæ superstruuntur
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron