Hermann waited for the next deal, took a card and placed upon it his forty-seven thousand roubles, together with his winnings of the previous evening.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

§ 8 In the transcendental philosophy of the ancients there exists one more leading division, which contains pure conceptions of the understanding, and which, although not numbered among the categories, ought, according to them, as conceptions a priori, to be valid of objects.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

85 These are to them the manly gown; 86 this is the first honor conferred on youth: before this they are considered as part of a household; afterwards, of the state.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

There are certain approximating propositions—e.g., that it is easier to keep in mind rhymed verse than prose, and definite rows and forms than block masses.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Names in -clēs have rarely the accusative -clea : as, Periclea .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

ut they are come and past, and thou hast more business than before.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

28 [ 84 ] As Aguinaldo’s troops surged forward in the wake of the American advance they were stopped by orders from the American commander, and prevented from following the retreating Spaniards into Manila.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

She took a cigarette and passed the pack to the two soldiers.
— from Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

Leaving the room hurriedly, he ran into his own—opened his desk, wrote two hurried lines, which he directed to Sir Pitt or Lady Crawley, and bade the messenger carry them at once to Gaunt Street, bidding him to take a cab, and promising him a guinea if he was back in an hour.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

175 'Tis ten a clock and past; All whom the Mues, Baloune, Tennis, Dyet, or the stewes, Had all the morning held, now the second Time made ready, that day, in flocks, are found In the Presence, and I, (God pardon mee.)
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

As there are blows and pain which end in insensibility or delirium, so there are catastrophes and perils which are so great as to produce something near akin to these.
— from A Lady of Quality Being a Most Curious, Hitherto Unknown History, as Related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but Not Presented to the World of Fashion Through the Pages of The Tatler, and Now for the First Time Written Down by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The reasons are to be found partly in his history, traditions, and circumstances, and partly in the present tendency of the legislation and discussions relating to the ownership and occupation of land.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various

The money went into the pockets of the Admiralty clerks and paymasters, who thrived on wholesale and shameless peculation.
— from The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

In the history of witchcraft the years from 1688 to [313] 1718 may be grouped together as comprising a period.
— from A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

Mr. Moon explains the attendant circumstances, and puts a changed face on the whole affair.
— from Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Tantaine took a cab, and, promising the cabman a handsome gratuity if he would drive fast, stopped at the spot where the Rue Blanche intersects the Rue de Douai, and told the coachman to wait for him, and entered the house where the younger Gandelu had installed the fair Madame de Chantemille.
— from Caught in the Net by Emile Gaboriau

Trafford ceased to listen, he helped himself to a cigar and pinched its end and lit it, while his mind went off to gnaw at: "A beautiful woman should be beautifully dressed," as a dog retires with a bone.
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

One would think that common sense as well as comfort would induce people to stay at home at noon and make themselves as cool as possible.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

For a minute or so this accident created a perfect rebellion among the hungry passengers behind, who, seeing the dishes, and hearing the knives and forks at work, well knew what would happen unless they got there instantly, and were nearly mad; while several virtuous citizens at the table were in deadly peril of choking themselves in their unnatural efforts to get rid of all the meat before these others came.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens