It can't be done, of course, unless you have once known the person you are addressing, or unless you have a friend in common who, though absent, can serve in making the introduction.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Then taking leave, W. Joyce and I set out, calling T. Trice at Bugden, and thence got by night to Stevenage, and there mighty merry, though I in bed more weary than the other two days, which, I think, proceeded from our galloping so much, my other weariness being almost all over; but I find that a coney skin in my breeches preserves me perfectly from galling, and that eating after I come to my Inne, without drinking, do keep me from being stomach sick, which drink do presently make me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The over-prudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than the audacious.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Of course, only the most promising pupils are sent there, and from these a careful selection is made, by which means the highest possible success is ensured.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various

But all these are complex states, it may be said, produced by combination of simpler ones;—do not the simpler ones follow a different law?
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

But all that the aviator can see is mottled landscape.
— from My Year of the Great War by Frederick Palmer

Rosenblatt turned, and crying, "She is mad!
— from The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewan by Ralph Connor

I have perceptions which I call perceptions of other people's bodies; and these are certainly similar in many respects to other perceptions of my own body.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

In this sense, at least, the authors can say in Montaigne's words, " ceci est un livre de bonne foy .
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

This is so directly opposed, not only to Scott's description, but to the generality of traditions about her, that, as Campbell says, "it makes the hair of one's literary faith stand on end."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various