The latter qualify only spiritual persons, and have no pertinence elsewhere.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

My imagination is endowed with the same powers as his; nor is it possible for him to conceive any idea, which I cannot conceive; nor conjoin any, which I cannot conjoin.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I did remark, to be sure, that mounting the stairs made her breathe very quick; that the least sudden noise set her all in a quiver, and that she coughed troublesomely sometimes: but I knew nothing of what these symptoms portended, and had no impulse to sympathise with her.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

To exhaust this part of the subject before going farther, it may be mentioned that Count Fosco offered every facility to Mr. Kyrle, on that gentleman's stating that he was sent by Miss Halcombe to collect such particulars as had not yet reached her of Lady Glyde's decease.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Amongst civilized nations revolts are rarely excited, except by such persons as have nothing to lose by them; and if the laws of a democracy are not always worthy of respect, at least they always obtain it; for those who usually infringe the laws have no excuse for not complying with the enactments they have themselves made, and by which they are themselves benefited, whilst the citizens whose interests might be promoted by the infraction of them are induced, by their character and their stations, to submit to the decisions of the legislature, whatever they may be.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[this in a sauce pan and] HEAT; NEXT BREAK DRY TOAST
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

I will speak plainly, and hereby notify to the Trojans that I will not give up the woman; but the wealth that I brought home with her from Argos I will restore, and will add yet further of my own.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But to open our view a little, it is worth observing, that almost all animals have parts of very much the same nature, and destined nearly to the same purposes; a head, neck, body, feet, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth; yet Provide
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Always lending an attentive ear to the plots of the wicked, whose end is to deceive, to deprive their prince of his just dues, and to conspire secretly, I have over and again unveiled their secret plans, and have not failed to report to Messer-Grande all I know.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It seemed as if we had returned from the campaign, and taken up again the customary occupations of city life; but if the Emperor sometimes indulged in this illusion, it was soon dispelled by the sight Moscow presented as seen from the windows of his apartments, and each time Napoleon's eyes turned in that direction it was evident that he was oppressed by the saddest presentiments, although he no longer manifested the same vehement impatience as on his first stay at the palace, when he saw the flames surrounding him and driving him from his apartments.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

On Wednesday evening the Senior Preparatory and Higher Normal Exhibition took place.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 07, July 1878 by Various

And but that these ladies had personal engagements for their evenings, Ellis could not have found time to keep herself in such practice as her new profession required; and her credit, if not her scholars, might have been lost, through the selfishness of the very patronesses by whom they had been obtained.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

On principle, Samuel Peel (as his niece suspected) had never set foot in the Tiger.
— from The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett

I should not speak so plainly of a gentleman, long since past answering, had not the pulpit, of late years, publicly owned his doctrine, and made it the current divinity of the times.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

“He doesn't owe me one single penny and he never will.
— from Kennedy Square by Francis Hopkinson Smith

She had a strange wild look; her lips were slightly parted, and her nostrils wide; her face was rigid, and glimmering pale as death from the cloud of her black hair.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald