This proceeds from causes, which I shall endeavour to explain afterwards.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

3. Some of the frigate’s men were still endeavoring to escape.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Master William Hamilton, my master's father-in-law, always gave his slaves enough to eat.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

In due course our ship entered the estuary called the Derwent, at whose head stands Hobart, the capital of Tasmania.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Meanwhile, the Monadists have been subtle enough to escape from this difficulty, by presupposing intuition and the dynamical relation of substances as the condition of the possibility of space, instead of regarding space as the condition of the possibility of the objects of external intuition, that is, of bodies.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Though I made no further observation of her at the moment, I may mention here what I did not discover until afterwards, namely, that she was one of a series of protegees whom my aunt had taken into her service expressly to educate in a renouncement of mankind, and who had generally completed their abjuration by marrying the baker.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The new coat of arms under the terms of the Royal Licence, which requires it first "to be exemplified in our Royal College of Arms, otherwise this our Royal Licence to be void and of none effect," is always so exemplified, this exemplification being from the legal point of view equivalent to a new grant of the arms to the person assuming them.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Here you see my better half is ailing, the partner of my life, as they say, excuse the expression. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Dear me," said he, "don't you know that this is so courtly a place, and so completely under the influence of [481] state etiquette, that everything in Richmond is called after the functionaries of the palace?
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

With the riches you possess, and the will that is not wanting, you might, as I have said, surpass even this enchanting abode."
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

For some reason Mr. Deer Mouse did not seem eager to enter.
— from The Tale of Benny Badger by Arthur Scott Bailey

Emilie spoke earnestly, so earnestly that Edith asked if she were grown very fond of that "sour old maid all of a sudden."
— from Emilie the Peacemaker by Geldart, Thomas, Mrs.

The circle of pitiless, excited eyes watched the swell of splendid strength expended to exhaustion against stock and cord.
— from The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

Now my eyesight never was good, but to make up for it I believe I had the sharpest ears that ever was, and I don't think anybody could have heard that whispering but me.
— from Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The article under consideration, however, which may be found upon another page, besides pointing out the difficulties which must be encountered and overcome, outlines a constructive policy which should engage the earnest attention of the Catholic public.
— from Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly

It must be remembered that the material of development affords graduated exercises passing from the most rudimentary sensory exercises to exercises in writing, calculating, and reading.
— from Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori

So that to hear people talk to-day one would fancy that every important human function must be organized and avenged by law; that all education must be state education, and all employment state employment; that everybody and everything must be brought to the foot of the august and prehistoric gibbet.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

In ordinary cases the children of a first marriage shared equally the estate of a father with those of a second marriage.
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie