And now gradually came the wonder that he stood up, completely clothed, another man, and not the Bargeman.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

That will be because the human senses, under certain circumstances, are susceptible to sympathetic induction.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

He had been presented to me as an advocate of the authority of Conscience; and his argument, put summarily, seemed to be that because reflection on our impulses showed us Conscience claiming authority therefore we ought to obey it.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

This implies that he compares two objects, a real color seen under certain conditions, and a mental perception which he believes to represent it, and that he declares the relation between them to be of a certain kind.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

When as often happens, the conclusion is a judgement which may follow from other given judgements, through which a perfectly different object is cogitated, I endeavour to discover in the understanding whether the assertion in this conclusion does not stand under certain conditions according to a general rule.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

As in other cases, it is gradually accumulating precedents which decide that certain statements under certain circumstances are at the peril of the party who makes them.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Now from some unnoticed corner comes a clear ringing chant from many voices, from another a deep single voice is heard intoning the epistle, or evangel, of the day; then suddenly the Royal doors fly open and a glimpse is obtained of the celebrant through thick rolling clouds of incense; the people prostrate themselves and the doors close.”
— from The Story of Moscow by Wirt Gerrare

It has been so used by the most successful writers, and it is still under certain conditions approved; but more discrimination is required in such embellishments than was anciently necessary.
— from History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

It seemed as if the maternal love of which most maids feel the unknown and unspelled yearning, and which, perchance, may draw them all unwittingly to wedlock, had seized upon Catherine Cavendish, and she had, as it were, fulfilled it by proxy by this love of her young sister, and so had her heart made cold toward all lovers.
— from The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Sheep, unlike cattle, cause a rapid deterioration in the quality of the pasturage, so that the number of sheep any particular ground will maintain in health is said to diminish annually, i.e. if it be stocked to its full extent.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

His digestive juices can't dissolve such unfamiliar chemical constituents, and his stomach must be greatly irritated."
— from Shipping Clerk by Joseph Samachson

I have heard of instances in which the bitumen coatings of mummy cases have softened under certain circumstances and become quite 'tacky.'
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

4th, Its intimate relations to the atoms of matter, as exhibited in its capability of acquiring a latent state under certain circumstances, and of entering into something like chemical combinations.
— from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel