They were now walking in the inn-yard, when a fat, fair, short person rode in, and, alighting from his horse, went directly up to Barnabas, who was smoaking his pipe on a bench.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

so preast Riden it is wickard to leave poor sols in to the grave all our minesters are imported Very good men foull of Love of Crist
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

And by images I mean, in the first place, shadows, and in the second place, reflections in water and in solid, smooth and polished bodies and the like: Do you understand? 13 Reading: ἄνισα .
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

She would never, for instance, have stayed away from a baby’s christening, and always put on a green silk dress with a train and adorned her chignon with curls and ringlets for such events, though at other times she positively revelled in slovenliness.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Bentham, certainly, to whom in the Social Statics Mr. Spencer particularly referred, is, least of all writers, chargeable with unwillingness to deduce the effect of actions on happiness from the laws of human nature and the universal conditions of human life.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

The servants were sad, and showed particular respectfulness in speaking of Liza; they were fond of her.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There I had a view of the line of turf along the cliff top, with seats placed at intervals, and the little square plots, railed in and planted with bushes, whence the staircases descended to the beach.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

That Manjusri was the legendary civilizer of Nepaul seems probable from the following extract from Brian Hodgson: {408} "The Swayambhu Purana relates in substance as follows: That formerly the valley of Nepaul was of circular form, and full of very deep water, and that the mountains confining it were clothed with the densest forests, giving shelter to numberless birds and beasts.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

At all events, I think it is plain that we have no reason to assert, in any case whatever, that a perceived colour does not really exist in the place where it is perceived as being, unless we assume that that very same place really is occupied by something else —either by some different sensible qualities or by material objects such as physical science supposes to exist.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

In all such passages repentance is most clearly presented as consisting exclusively of voluntary acts or intentions.
— from Doctrine of the Will by Asa Mahan

Kitty's house is the sweetest place, rather in the country, and just made of wood with a shingle roof; but so quaint, and people look at it with the same sort of reverence we look at Aikin's Farm, which was built in fourteen hundred, you remember?
— from Elizabeth Visits America by Elinor Glyn

These were Lawes, at first, by the vertue of the Soveraign Power residing in the people; and such of them as by the Emperours were not abrogated, remained Lawes by the Authority Imperiall.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Scattered upon the ledge were coils of rope, tackle blocks, a broken oar, some wire cables and other boat-gear, while beyond, and so perfectly reflected in the glass-like pool that it appeared like a complete circle, was an arched opening with a sunlit strip of water visible through it.
— from The Radio Detectives Under the Sea by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill