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Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn’d down Where I left reading?
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
[Footnote: "The seat of the stricture is not the same in all cases, though, in by far the greater number of instances, the constriction is relieved by the division upwards and inwards of the falciform process of the fascia lata, and the lunated edge of Gimbernat's ligament, where they join with each other.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise
Of the modality of the judgement upon the sublime in nature There are numberless beautiful things in nature about which we can assume and even expect, without being far mistaken, the harmony of every one’s judgement with our own.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
So you’ll go very quickly through the Third Square—by railway, I should think—and you’ll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
and the seven inner whorls are narrower, in the following proportions—the sixth is next to the first in size, the fourth next to the sixth; then comes the eighth; the seventh is fifth, the fifth is sixth, the third is seventh, last and eighth comes the second.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
The Rules, for doing this, are as follows:— (1) Ascertain what is the Subject (i.e., ascertain what Class we are talking about ); (2) If the verb, governed by the Subject, is not the verb “are” (or “is”), substitute for it a phrase beginning with “are” (or “is”); (3) Ascertain what is the Predicate (i.e., ascertain what Class it is, which is asserted to contain some , or none , or all , of the Members of the Subject); (4) If the Name of each Term is completely expressed (i.e. if it contains a Substantive), there is no need to determine the ‘Univ.’; but, if either Name is incompletely expressed , and contains Attributes only, it is then necessary to determine a ‘Univ.’, in order to insert its Name as the Substantive.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll
Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? FALSTAFF.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
I forbear all allusion to our Prince's mode of thinking and acting; but he was not ashamed to declare that my son knew nothing, and that he ought to go to the musical training school in Naples to learn music.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soul-sleep is nowhere taught in the Bible and is therefore an invention by those who handle the word deceitfully.
— from Studies in Prophecy by Arno Clemens Gaebelein
“No, thank you, sir; I never tasted wine.”
— from Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald
At this stage someone will say:—But if the theory, in the strict sense, is not true, wherein then lies the discovery?
— from Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx by Benedetto Croce
The other point is, whether a change so important, not to say so radical, whatever may be the judgment of individual Senators, like the Senator from Connecticut, or like myself, should not be referred to the committee having charge of such questions.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) by Charles Sumner
"Why, Annie," he said, "I never thought—"
— from The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst
"Papa, she says she is to go back; but she is not to go back—is she?"
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
The particles of carbon also present in the flame are heated to whiteness by the hydrogen, but they are not sufficient in number to convert more than a fraction of the heat into light.
— from The Romance of Modern Invention Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c. by Archibald Williams
Born to wealth, she regrets that she is not the daughter or the mother of workingmen.
— from George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by René Doumic
“She was up at Flint House on that night, and now she is not to be found.
— from The Moon Rock by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees
But I cannot take you to the Mütterchen in London, for she is not there.
— from Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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