And what dost thou mean, when thou really hatest both him and his brother, to pretend kindness to them, only in order to raise a reproach against me, and talk of such things as no one but such an impious wretch as thou art could either devise in their mind, or declare in their words?
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

There are always two Syphogrants called into the council chamber, and these are changed every day.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

Music is not design'd to please only Chromatick Ears, but all that are capable ef distinguishing harsh from disagreeable Notes.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

We are working together towards a common end.” “Don’t ask me to help you, because I won’t.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The important question was agitated in their presence, and those ambitious courtiers easily discerned, that it was incumbent on them to second, by their eloquence, the importunate violence of the Caesar.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The Stoics define all these different feelings; and all those words which I have mentioned belong to different things, and do not, as they seem, express the same ideas; but they are to a certain extent distinct, as I shall make appear perhaps in another place.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hope is an inconstant pleasure, arising from the idea of something past or future, whereof we to a certain extent doubt the issue.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

"Henry," said the Professor, "I do believe that the situation is to a certain extent desperate.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

“No; I have fully decided on that, and nothing will change my mind.” Such assurance combined with the inexplicable indiscretions that Arsène committed every day served to annoy and mystify the officers of the law.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

[ 96 ] And even were it possible, what interest would Spain have in the destruction of the inhabitants of a country she can not populate or cultivate, whose climate is to a certain extent disastrous to her?
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

They are changing every day.
— from In Times Like These by Nellie L. McClung

It would also stop the grain trade on the Dead Sea, on which the enemy set store, and would divert traffic in foodstuffs to natives in Lower Palestine, who at this time were to a considerable extent dependent on supplies furnished by our Army.
— from How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine by W. T. (William Thomas) Massey

Though it is good, in [256] one sense, that sacred books have been thrown broadcast on the world; it has, to a certain extent, divested them of much of their peculiar value in the minds of the multitude.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

To some of the results of their labour we would invite the reader’s attention; and in order to render the account of them intelligible, we must, to a certain extent, describe “things new and old.”
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

The abolition of slavery had its infidel advocates; so had the temperance movement, etc.; and these advocates have to a certain extent damaged their respective causes by their advocacy of them; yet the tide of human progress has been onward.
— from Woman: Man's Equal by Thomas Webster

They are used to a certain extent during the summer when they are immature, but generally they are allowed to mature so that they may be stored for use as a winter vegetable.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Not a word that goes from the lips into the air can ever die, until the atmosphere which wraps our huge globe in its embrace has passed away forever, and the heavens are no more.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

But winter in the Himalayas is a season of startling phenomena; for it is then that thunder storms of appalling grandeur are prevalent, and to a considerable extent destructive.
— from The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various