Is that a pun, eh?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We maintain, therefore, the empirical reality of space in regard to all possible external experience, although we must admit its transcendental ideality; in other words, that it is nothing, so soon as we withdraw the condition upon which the possibility of all experience depends and look upon space as something that belongs to things in themselves.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

To this I would reply that the same end would be, beyond all comparison, better attained by means of good plays than by those that are not so; for after listening to an artistic and properly constructed play, the hearer will come away enlivened by the jests, instructed by the serious parts, full of admiration at the incidents, his wits sharpened by the arguments, warned by the tricks, all the wiser for the examples, inflamed against vice, and in love with virtue; for in all these ways a good play will stimulate the mind of the hearer be he ever so boorish or dull; and of all impossibilities the greatest is that a play endowed with all these qualities will not entertain, satisfy, and please much more than one wanting in them, like the greater number of those which are commonly acted now-a-days.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The same measure of punishment, with which, in the days of his prosperity, he was accused of menacing his rival, was inflicted on Attalus himself; he was condemned, after the amputation of two fingers, to a perpetual exile in the Isle of Lipari, where he was supplied with the decent necessaries of life.
— 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 celebrated Athenais 74 was educated by her father Leontius in the religion and sciences of the Greeks; and so advantageous was the opinion which the Athenian philosopher entertained of his contemporaries, that he divided his patrimony between his two sons, bequeathing to his daughter a small legacy of one hundred pieces of gold, in the lively confidence that her beauty and merit would be a sufficient portion.
— 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

Contenting themselves, for the most part, with the milder chastisements of imprisonment, exile, or slavery in the mines, they left the unhappy victims of their justice some reason to hope, that a prosperous event, the accession, the marriage, or the triumph of an emperor, might speedily restore them, by a general pardon, to their former state.
— 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

Then a pause ensued in the conversation, during which our eyes wandered round the room.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Phillotson's hair was brushed to a painful extent, and his shirt collar appeared stiffer than it had been for the previous twenty years.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Hast Thou, although present every where, cast away our misery far from Thee?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He had thus a perfectly efficient bouquet-holde
— from Michael Faraday Third Edition, with Portrait by J. H. (John Hall) Gladstone

Does this apprehension possibly extend beyond the Celestial Empire?
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

21 THE APPEAL TO THE EYE No one, least of all the French cook, calculates to feast the eye at the expense of the sense of taste, yet it is his experience after long years that good digestion is much more likely to wait upon the appetite that has been stirred to a preliminary enthusiasm by the attractive appearance of a dish.
— from Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them by Cora Moore

Yea, we can take you, but you're a queer sort to ask passage ere you know whither she sails.
— from The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes

The people were reduced to such a state of poverty that even Mr. Loch himself, in his “Sutherland Improvements,” page 76, admits that—“Their wretchedness was so great that, after pawning everything they possessed to the fishermen on the coast, such as had no cattle were reduced to come down from the hills in hundreds for the purpose of gathering cockles on the shore.
— from The History of the Highland Clearances Second Edition, Altered and Revised by Alexander Mackenzie

In several places, columns, ranged at regular distances, announced halls, lodges, and passages which the ants proposed establishing; in a word, it was the rough beginning of a new story.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

The success of these trials led them to think of fitting a motor to their machine; and they calculated at first that a petrol engine of about 6 h.p., weighing 100 lbs., would be sufficient to drive a craft through the air; but they hoped to obtain one more powerful than this.
— from The Aeroplane by Claude Grahame-White

But these are not the folk who are responsible for the absurd popular etymology which associates the modern colloquial and slang use of the word lark with the O.E. lāc sb. , joyous activity, sport, lācan vb. , to play, and with the dialect lake ( Sc. Nhb.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright

Expert´ (Lat. experiri , to test), a person eminently skilled in any particular branch or profession; specifically, a scientific or professional witness who gives evidence on matters connected with his profession, as an analytical chemist or a person skilled in handwriting.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various

FOR I FEEL THAT SOME VIRTUE IS GONE OUT OF ME'—which is the exact feeling that a physical electrician experiences at this day after employing his powers on a subject.
— from A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel by Marie Corelli