It isn’t the sort of thing one should talk of in private.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

v [B26] for this situation to obtain in pool.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

" 'Speaking of Burke, he said, "It was commonly observed, he spoke too often in parliament; but nobody could say he did not speak well, though too frequently and too familiarly.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Liebmann further asserts, “that we see things only in perspective sizes, i.e., only from an angle of vision varying with their approach, withdrawal and change of position, but in no sense as definite cubical, linear, or surface sizes.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

For as fluidity depends, according to the most general opinion, on the roundness, smoothness, and weak cohesion of the component parts of any body, and as water acts merely as a simple fluid, it follows that the cause of its fluidity is likewise the cause of its relaxing quality, namely, the smoothness and slippery texture of its parts.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

(Hence it is probable that the word genius is derived from genius , that peculiar guiding and guardian spirit given to a man at his birth, from whose suggestion these original Ideas proceed.) (4) Nature by the medium of genius does not prescribe rules to Science, but to Art; and to it only in so far as it is to be beautiful Art. § 47.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Had checked for nothing until the third day before her death, when she took out in person the sum of 4000 francs.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Why should the only intelligible philosophy seem to defeat reason and the chief means of benefiting mankind seem to blast our best hopes?
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In 1719 he officially despatched the surveyors Yevrinoff and Lushin to ascertain whether Asia and America were connected, but secretly he instructed them to go to the Kurile Islands to search for precious metals, especially a white mineral which the Japanese were said to obtain in [Pg 18] large quantities from the fifth or sixth island.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Professor Marvin has lately made very careful open air comparisons of anemometers previously tested on the whirling machine, which have shown that, owing in part to the irregular and gusty character of the wind movement in the open air, taken in connection with the effects arising from the moment of inertia of the cups, and the length of the arms of the anemometer, the constants determined by whirling machine methods need slight corrections and alterations to conform to the altered conditions of exposure of the instruments in the open air.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 1, April, 1890 by Various

Difficulties and objections should be candidly considered, and allowed their due weight; but they must not be suffered to override irrefragable proof, else we shall soon land in universal skepticism: for difficulties, and some of them too insoluble, can be urged against the great facts of nature and natural religion, as well as of revelation.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

His domains were so situated that, while the civil war lasted, his vassals could not tend their herds or sow their oats in peace.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Line a two-quart pudding basin with some beef suet paste; fill the lining with thick mutton cutlets, slightly trimmed, or, if preferred, with steaks cut from the leg; season with pepper and salt some parsley, a little thyme and two slices of onion chopped fine, and between each layer of meat, put some slices of potatoes.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

I must say, moreover, that since he had married me I had a kind of fear of him and was afraid that I should hear him speak to me of love; but he scarcely thought of it, poor fellow: reverence closed his lips.
— from Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable

"Who told you that I was meditating a duel?" "Confess that such was the case?" "I protest; there is a great difference between believing and supposing; the one is positive, the other merely hypothetical.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 11: Paris and Holland by Giacomo Casanova

"I guess the main idea with him is that he can get in some of his dirty work if he sees the other is passing him," Andy sneered.
— from The Airplane Boys among the Clouds Or, Young Aviators in a Wreck by John Luther Langworthy

'Wonderful that, from east to west, they must all be like this,' one says to oneself in presence of certain consistencies, certain positive monotonies of aspect; 'wonderful that if joy of battle (for the classic term, in spite of new horrors, seems clearly still to keep its old sense,) has, to so attested a pitch, animated these forms, the disconnection of spirit should be so prompt and complete, should hand the creature over as by the easiest turn to the last refinements of accommodation.
— from Within the Rim, and Other Essays, 1914-15 by Henry James

Indeed, she thought over it persistently while she dressed.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

On the following day, mules and several kicking horses being produced, Count Christopher laid himself on the ground with his cuirass screwed, and rising nimbly, without any vantage, sprung on a horse, and this he repeated several times; and then, with running and vaulting, afforded those hellhounds a princely spectacle of knightly exercises, to their great admiration, and specially that of Ibrahim Pacha, who soon after took him to himself, and kept him safe in his own custody.
— from The Sieges of Vienna by the Turks by Karl August Schimmer