You sit quickly up in bed.
— from Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises by Donald Ogden Stewart

On the other hand, it might be proved that the matter which is a subject of natural generations is not an incomplete substantial entity, and that the intrinsic act by which it is constituted, is not, as Suarez pretends, an act secundum quid , but an act simpliciter ; it being evident that nothing can be in act secundum quid unless it be already in act simpliciter ; whence it is manifest that the first act of matter cannot be an act secundum quid .
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

“My friend,” replied Sagesse quite unmoved, “I believe you.
— from The Ship of Coral by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

"Joyce, we must certainly show young Lathom that—why, I am sitting quite upright in bed, and felt nothing when I moved—as I say young Lathom must certainly be told that he may come down to see his copy.
— from Thorley Weir by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

If this does occur, still there is no direct evidence of its toxic influence in the small quantities used in baking-powder.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

Today on the eve of another war things are still quiet up in Breathitt County so far as the Hargises are concerned.
— from Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas

It must have been some quite unaccountable instinct, because naturally, you know, when you are not used to being driven in motors, you like to dash up to the house you are going to, and enjoy your friends' enjoyment of the grand way in which you have travelled.
— from The Magic City by E. (Edith) Nesbit