For the settlement of that controversy does not belong to it; it only demands from speculative reason that it should put an end to the discord in which it entangles itself in theoretical questions, so that practical reason may have rest and security from external attacks which might make the ground debatable on which it desires to build.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

"I've been assigned two weeks of independent study, writing one paper for each of my subjects, using the city for my background -- a history paper, a social studies paper, an English paper, a physics paper.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

When she used to come from the College for her holidays and live with us, nothing gave her such pleasure and enthusiasm to talk about as plays and actors.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Governor , a father, a master or superior person, an elder; “which way, GUV’NER , to Cheapside?”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

What should I have said if I had been told in the morning that instead of drowning myself I should take part in so pleasant an entertainment?
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I stepped into the nearest burrito joint and ordered one with carnitas -- shredded pork -- and extra salsa.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

245 SUBJUNCTIVE PRESENT am em am ēm us am er am ēmur am ēs am ētis am ēris, -re am ēminī am et am ent am ētur am entur IMPERFECT amār em amār emus amār er amār ēmur amār ēs amār ētis amār ēris, -re amār ēminī amār et amār ent amār ētur amār entur PERFECT amāv erim amāv erimus amāt us, -a, -um sim amāt ī, -ae, -a sīmus amāv eris amāv eritis sīs sītis amāv erit amāv erint sit sint PLUPERFECT amāv issem amāv issēmus amāt us, -a, -um essem amāt ī, -ae, -a essēmus amāv issēs amāv issētis essēs essētis amāv isset amāv issent esset essent IMPERATIVE PRESENT amā, love thou amā
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The boys laughed and seemed pleased and embarrassed.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

In this same year, 1853, Dr. Schaaffhausen published an excellent pamphlet ("Verhand.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

[981] ‘Cui conversationis honestas et claritas scientiae, pietas affectionis et opinionis integritas, facultas erudiendi et disserendi subtilitas,’ &c. Mon.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

'Seek peace and ensue it,' in Scripture phrase.
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

A ball through the skull put an end to its sufferings.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

I cannot, of course, say how Mr. Larkin's conjectures reached so prodigious an elevation, but I can now comprehend why it was desirable that this surprising estimate of the vicar's liabilities should prevail.
— from Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

These estufas, which figure so prominently in these ruins and in fact in all the ancient ruins extending southward from the basin of the Rio San Juan, are so identical in their structure, position, and evident uses with the similar ones in the pueblos now inhabited, that they indisputably connect one with the other, and show this region to have been covered at one time with a numerous population, of which the present inhabitants of the pueblos of Moki and of New Mexico are either the remnants or the descendants….
— from Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis Henry Morgan

He drew his dagger, and said, in a loud voice, "'Do my subjects wish to save the Empire from the humiliation of yielding to a band of seditious miscreants, or do they prefer that I should put an end to that Empire by here stabbing my son and myself in order to rescue it from the disgrace of being trampled upon by traitors?'
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

"Well, I can doctor trees," he said, pointing an efficient finger at the magnificent maple sheltering, like a guardian deity, the old farmhouse.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The Christians of Palestine being totally without means of resisting the Mameluke forces, sent deputies to the West to solicit prompt and efficient succour.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

Born in the year 1800 and dying in 1870, Lord Clarendon lived through a period of social, political, and economic change more rapid probably than had been witnessed in any similar space of time in the previous hist
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

"Where are those papers?" inquired Miss Ri suddenly putting an end to the nonsense.
— from Talbot's Angles by Amy Ella Blanchard