It ended as it was sure to end, in my gradually toying with her from one excitement to another, until she was completely fucked in her thirteenth year.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

the idea itself cannot be said to exist; it must therefore be the idea of something actually existing.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Wilford says this event is mentioned in two Puranas as occurring in the sixth or eighth generation of the Great War.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

This is immediately followed by another page enumerating the various kinds of students thronging the wood in order to avail themselves of the teaching of a great Buddhist sage; they even include monkeys busily engaged in ritual ceremonies, devout parrots expounding a Buddhist dictionary, owls lecturing on the various births of Buddha, and tigers who have given up eating flesh under the calming influence of Buddhist teaching.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

“And here,” she said to Egremont, “I must bid you good bye; and this little boy,” touching gently on his head a very serious urchin who had never left her side for a moment, proud of his position, and holding tight her hand with all his strength, “this little boy shall be your guide.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Most likely this smiling man did not taste the flavour of the porridge either, for he seemed to eat it mechanically, lifting the spoon to his lips sometimes very full and sometimes quite empty.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Starting at the [Pg 93] left, we have the handle for setting the engine in motion; the engine (a two-cylinder in this case); the fly-wheel, inside which is the clutch; the gear-box, containing the cogs for altering the speed of revolution of the driving-wheels relatively to that of the engine; the propeller shaft; the silencer, for deadening the noise of the exhaust; and the bevel-gear, for turning the driving-wheels.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Every fresh circumstance seems to establish it more clearly.”
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

" This year is the happiest because I am studying subjects that especially interest me, economics, Elizabethan literature, Shakespeare under Professor George L. Kittredge, and the History of Philosophy under Professor Josiah Royce.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

At other sports this equalization is managed by means of starts.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

I caught the infection, and though I had but a single dollar in my pocket, no business whatever, and did not know where I was to get my next meal, I found myself saying to everybody I met, ‘It is a glorious country!’”
— from The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin

And, as I drank, new life seemed to enter into me.
— from The Treasure of the Tigris: A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman

I must say, however, that I have not attended a closer and more satisfactory theological examination in many a day than that of the nine theological students who will graduate from Talladega next year.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 08, August, 1879 by Various

Andreiev is still strong, though enveloped in "mystic anarchism."
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

The progress of society towards enlightenment is marked by the steady social rise of the surgeon and the physician, a rise which still continues, even in Western Europe.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

'My dear George,' said Mrs. Crawford to Colonel Gerald when she had contrived to draw him to her side at a secluded part of the gardens,—'My dear George, she is far more of a success than even I myself anticipated.
— from Daireen. Complete by Frank Frankfort Moore

If the court sustain the exceptions it may order a new bond to be executed by the plaintiff or complainant, or in default thereof within a time to be named by the court, the property to be returned to the defendant.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

I have seen the entry in Messrs. Turnwell's books, from which this is a copy.
— from A Child of the Glens; or, Elsie's Fortunes by Edward N. Hoare