[electrical resonance] tuning, squelch, frequency selection; resonator, resonator circuit; radio &c. @2.3.1.6.8.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

As they sallied forth, Seuthes rose to accompany them, like the soberest of men.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The young musical director of Riga, long since forgotten, suddenly reappeared in an astonishing reincarnation as royal conductor to the King of Saxony.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

If we admit the existence of spontaneously produced events, that is, of free agency, we are driven, in our search for sufficient reasons, on an unavoidable law of nature and are compelled to appeal to the empirical law of causality, and we find that any such totality of connection in our synthesis is too small for our necessary empirical conception.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Arete was the first to speak, for she recognised the shirt, cloak, and good clothes that Ulysses was wearing, as the work of herself and of her maids; so she said, "Stranger, before we go any further, there is a question I should like to ask you.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

But notwithstanding that my natural propensity, and the course of my animal spirits and passions reduce me to this indolent belief in the general maxims of the world, I still feel such remains of my former disposition, that I am ready to throw all my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasures of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Otherwise you might fancy it was I who was sneering at the practice of devotion, which Miss Sharp finds so ridiculous; that it was I who laughed good-humouredly at the reeling old Silenus of a baronet—whereas the laughter comes from one who has no reverence except for prosperity, and no eye for anything beyond success.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

So, finally, she returned home to Australia in January, mid-January.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

synonym for Solanki Rājpūts.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

They said they wished to see if anything could be saved from the cutter; but I suspect, from some remarks which they let fall, that their intention was to increase the size of the raft, and to make some further improvements on it, so that it might carry, if required, the whole of the party without difficulty.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1.
— from The Makers and Teachers of Judaism From the Fall of Jerusalem to the Death of Herod the Great by Charles Foster Kent

When she woke up she felt so refreshed and rested that she fancied it must be morning.
— from The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth

She noticed that her sister held her head down, so that her hair shadowed her, and guessed that she did so for some reason—probably because she did not wish her face to be seen.
— from Beatrice by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

A flock of geese belonging to Mr. Lloyd, of the town-house, at Marford, seven miles from Chester, lately set a hare on the top of that hill, when poor puss, bursting from the cackling tribe, ran down the hill and was pursued by the whole flock, some flying, some running with extended wings till they overtook her, when puss slyly gave them the double; and, returning, was so closely pursued by the irritated flock as to be taken alive by a servant-girl of Mrs. Pate’s, as she was attempting the latch in her mistresses garden, in the presence of upwards of twenty spectators.
— from The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Samuel James Arnold

The original may be considered as a very creditable example of extempore sonnet: A fluid, darksome and opaque, long time had dimmed my sight, For seven revolving, weary years one eye was lost to light; The other, darkened by a film, during three years saw no day, High heaven’s bright and gladd’ning light could not pierce it with its ray.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams