Whether there is a universal, called "whiteness," or whether white things are to be defined as those having a certain kind of similarity to a standard thing, say freshly fallen snow, is a question which need not concern us, and which I believe to be strictly insoluble.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

and that is: to have a certain kind of capacity and to use it.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Hereupon the women made their husbands and children known to their fathers and brothers, fetched food and drink for such as needed it, and took the wounded into their own houses to be attended to there.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Yet, shaking hands thus, as it were, with corruption, one foot on earth, the other with bold strides mounts to heaven, and claims kindred with superiour natures.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

You must go to her and claim kin, and ask for some help in our trouble.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Adam had during that time refused to have any children, knowing that he would only rear inmates of hell.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each: it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

v [A12; a3] have the luck to have a certain k.o. spouse.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It is an ignorant zeal that haunts him, sir; But truly, else, a very faithful brother, A botcher, and a man, by revelation, That hath a competent knowledge of the truth.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

To supply them, whole suits of clothes were stripped of their buttons, bureaus of their handles, and copper kettles, tin canisters, and candlesticks went to wreck.
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

Many of the assembly appeared to have a confused knowledge of this fact, and to be filled with consternation at perceiving that neither outrages or ignominies could alter the majestic expression of his countenance.
— from The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anna Katharina Emmerich

The hands are chiefly Krumen.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The name and fame of the great sixteenth-century magician, Dr. Faust or Faustus, found way somehow to our peasantry; for it was quite common to hear a crooked knavish man spoken of in this way:—'That fellow is a match for the devil and Dr. Fosther .'
— from English As We Speak It in Ireland by P. W. (Patrick Weston) Joyce

To-morrow Are the Circensian games, Nero will come: I, under the pretence of some request, Will kneel to him, as Cimber knelt to Cæsar; And as I beg my boon I’ll drag him down, If one of you will slay him.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 6 by Robert Bridges

Then the remainder raised their hands and cried: " Kamerad !"
— from The Khaki Boys over the Top; Or, Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam by Gordon Bates

ed. Wulff, Lund, 1888), which tells how a certain King Mangount of Moraine sent a magic drinking-cup to Arthur.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

The Chandnāhu Kurmis then have a ceremony known as palkachār .
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Roderic, moved by a growing passion, frequently visited her, and in time soft sentiments woke in her heart for the handsome and courteous king.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish by Charles Morris

[I] exclaimed—& looking around me I beheld Fantasia—She smiled & as she smiled all the enchanting scene appeared lovelier—rainbows played in the fountain & the heath flowers at our feet appeared as if just refreshed by dew—I have seized you, said she—as you slept and will for some little time retain you as my prisoner—I will introduce you to some of the inhabitants of these peaceful Gardens—It shall not be to any whose exuberant happiness will form an u[n]pleasing contrast with your heavy grief but it shall be to those whose chief care here is to acquired knowledged [ sic ] & virtue—or to those who having just escaped from care & pain have not yet recovered full sense of enjoyment—This part of these Elysian Gardens is devoted to those who as before in your world wished to become wise & virtuous by study & action here endeavour after the same ends by contemplation—They are still unknowing of their final destination but they have a clear knowledge of what on earth is only supposed by some which is that their happiness now & hereafter depends upon their intellectual improvement—Nor do they only study the forms of this universe but search deeply in their own minds and love to meet & converse on all those high subjects of which the philosophers of Athens loved to treat—With deep feelings but with no outward circumstances to excite their passions you will perhaps imagine that their life is uniform & dull—but these sages are of that disposition fitted to find wisdom in every thing & in every lovely colour or form ideas that excite their love—Besides many years are consumed before they arrive here—When a soul longing for knowledge & pining at its narrow conceptions escapes from your earth many spirits wait to receive it and to open its eyes to the mysteries of the universe—many centuries are often consumed in these travels and they at last retire here to digest their knowledge & to become still wiser by thought and imagination working upon memory
— from Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley