The delight was too excessive to endure long, and before Sir Charles was ready to perform his part in the final scene, I felt the dear boy's discharge poured into me, as his head sank upon my back and his convulsive grasp of my throbbing instrument relaxed.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

For himself he knew, that, in spite of all the Englishmen that ever lived, he would be forced to enter supersensual chaos if he meant to find out what became of British science--or indeed of any other science.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The empire thus established lasted for more than four 2 hundred years.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

All that we can know empirically is approximate and liable to exceptions; the exact laws that are assumed in physics are known to be somewhere near the truth, but are not known to be true just as they stand.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The empire thus established lasted for more than four hundred years.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Guzzle , to eat or drink to excess; to eat loudly, hastily, and clumsily.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

For there ought to be a particular theorem, which may be easily proved from the definition, to the effect that every line, which has all its points at equal distances from another point, must be a curved line—that is, that not even the smallest part of it can be straight.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

If he cannot digest a strong-working decoction to eradicate the evil, let him at least take a lenitive to ease it: [“It is an effeminate and flimsy opinion, nor more so in pain than in pleasure, in which, while we are at our ease, we cannot bear without a cry the sting of a bee.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

That such infamy should be tolerated in a town is a piece of barbarity and iniquity, all the more as it could easily be remedied by a police-notice to the effect that every lash shall have a knot at the end of it.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

The conclusion of the whole was, that if the woman who had been sensible of Captain Wentworth's merits could be allowed to prefer another man, there was nothing in the engagement to excite lasting wonder; and if Captain Wentworth lost no friend by it, certainly nothing to be regretted.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

The President assured the other party that, while he must adhere to these positions, he would be prepared, so far as power is lodged with the Executive, to exercise liberality.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

Consider, then, at what an enormous advantage he commences the siege who is able to surprise, to interest, to entertain the emotional, laughter-loving garrison, so often in the doldrums, so indifferently able to fill up the lingering hours.
— from The Crooked Stick; Or, Pollie's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

Such a practical joke as this is "not for an age, but for all time," until there shall be no longer left a hen to lay an egg, or, if there be an egg left by the expiring hen, there shall be no longer a person remaining to eat the egg left by the egg-spiring hen; or, if the person and the egg be there, the last man and the last egg, there shall be no ten minutes allowed for refreshment, as there will be no more time for anything!!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, November 4th 1893 by Various

It having been reported that, on hearing the City would petition the King against the bill, as they had both Houses, on the ground of the bill being calculated to extend the excise, Lord Bute had sent word to the leading men of the City, that if they would drop their 254 petition, the bill should be repealed the next session, he thought it necessary to explain the foundation of that report; he had only sent word, he said, that if the bill proved a bad one, which he did not believe it would, he would try to get it repealed.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 1 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

The Sport of Fame People have professed themselves amazed at my past life, and perhaps I can amaze them a little more by relating what great sport I and Fame have had; how she coaxed me into making several attempts to enrich the English language—some people think the attempts successful—and how she served me afterwards.
— from Beggars by W. H. (William Henry) Davies

He gave to the people the classics of their own land, and at a time when the character of our literary tongue was being [pg 15] settled did more than any other man before or since has done to establish the English language.
— from William Caxton by E. Gordon (Edward Gordon) Duff

Meantime, Governor Denny, who had been recently sent out to the province by the proprietaries, tired of struggling with the public opinion which was surging about him in Pennsylvania, and in disregard of his instructions, assented to the passing of laws which taxed equally the entire landed property of the province, and assumed that the assembly was the proper judge of the requirements of the people it represented.
— from Franklin: A Sketch by John Bigelow

This faith they do not know at all, and give up, thinking that God has forsaken them and is become their enemy; they even lay the blame of their ills on men and devils, and have no confidence at all in God.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

Lest, however, “the meanest capacity” (which cannot, by the way, be supposed to be addicted to PUNCH) should boggle at it, it may be as well to explain that every letter of the final word of each alternate line must be pronounced as though Dilworth himself presided at the perusal; and that the last letter (or letters) placed in italics will be found to constitute the rhyme.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 by Various