At first Mrs. Hall did not understand, and as soon as she did she resolved to see the empty room for herself.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Sometimes it is possible even to guess something of the motives which make it necessary for this unwillingness to disguise itself, and it always achieves its purpose by the error resulting from the concealment, while its rejection would be certain were it to present itself as open contradiction.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The large savage beasts we take by hunting, partly for food, partly to exercise ourselves in imitation of martial discipline, and to use those we can tame and instruct, as elephants, or to extract remedies for our diseases and wounds, as we do from certain roots and herbs, the virtues of which are known by long use and experience.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

During travels in numerous lands, I have listened to early recollections from the lips of veracious men and women.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

What the State can usefully do, is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

We are only called upon to determine how far we must proceed in the empirical regress from condition to condition, in order to discover, in conformity with the rule of reason, a full and correct answer to the questions proposed by reason itself.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The evils resulting from this huge system of iniquity are not confined to the states south of Mason and Dixon’s line.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

From this village the traveler en route for iron ways would better travel toward the Georgia state line, which runs along the low crest of the Blue Ridge.
— from The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

WAR : Three Essays, reprinted from “Military Manners.”
— from A List of Books Published by Chatto & Windus, September 1891 by Chatto & Windus (Firm)

An ardent physician persuaded himself so thoroughly of these evils resulting from marriage
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

In Mayenne's Opinion the Duke of Guise was likely to be the man; but there is little doubt that Philip, in case these more cherished schemes should fail, had made up his mind—so far as he ever did make up his mind upon anything—to select his nephew the Archduke Ernest, brother of the Emperor Rudolph, for his son-in-law.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1592-94 by John Lothrop Motley

His face haunted her: those exquisitely refined features upon which the only effect of age was an increased delicacy of line and colouring; the depth of thought in the dark grey eyes; the grave smile with its so swift transition from satire to a tender melancholy.
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

She too expected relief from it, but in another sense.
— from The Bride of Dreams by Frederik van Eeden

But neither Defense nor Treasury," he said alluding to each representative from their respective agencies, "can spend money without Congress's approv- al.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

But seemingly the intention of the effect resulting from a moral act is something beside and accidental to the species of that act, so that an indefinite number of effects can result from one act.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Procedures for Notices of Intent To Enforce A Copyright Office task force has been meeting for several months to discuss issues related to establishing regulations for URAA filings.
— from Supplementary Copyright Statutes, US Copy. Office by Library of Congress. Copyright Office