It is evident then that we may conclude of those things that are, that plants are created for the sake of animals, and animals for the sake of men; the tame for our use and provision; the wild, at least the greater part, for our provision also, or for some other advantageous purpose, as furnishing us with clothes, and the like.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

He swaggered up a path as if as if the place belonged to him, and we heard his loud, confident peal at the bell.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Emily now had a full view of Udolpho, with its gray walls, towers and terraces, high over-topping the precipices and the dark woods, and glittering partially with the arms of the condottieri, as the sun's rays, streaming through an autumnal cloud, glanced upon a part of the edifice, whose remaining features stood in darkened majesty.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Then he folded it up and put it in his pocket.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

He ought, moreover, clearly to recognize beforehand the unavoidable difficulties in his undertaking, so that he may not afterwards complain of the obscurity in which the subject itself is deeply involved, or become too soon impatient of the obstacles in his path; because we have a choice of only two things—either at once to give up all pretensions to knowledge beyond the limits of possible experience, or to bring this critical investigation to completion.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

"Give us a plateful of the source of all slander and evil-speaking, with mashed potatoes.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Ivan Dmitritch Gromov, a man of thirty-three, who is a gentleman by birth, and has been a court usher and provincial secretary, suffers from the mania of persecution.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

By three o’clock we found it was no use, and so we got up and played cribbage and smoked pipes till sunrise.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

[*] For my own part, I had been for some time very seriously affected with the danger to which the Protestant religion was so visibly exposed under a Popish prince, and thought the apprehension of it alone sufficient to justify that insurrection; for no real security can ever be found against the persecuting spirit of Popery, when armed with power, except the depriving it of that power, as w
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

From this point of view, however, it seems to be unsatisfactory and perhaps illegitimate.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

He demanded many times, by a trumpeter [40] , that we should surrender the castle, and he would spare our lives and give us a pass to Spain.
— from Captain Cuellar's Adventures in Connaught & Ulster A.D. 1588. To Which Is Added an Introduction and Complete Translation of Captain Cuellar's Narrative of the Spanish Armada and His Adventures in Ireland by Cuellar, Francisco de, active 16th century

Was it a squaw that rode upon a pony white as a summer cloud beside her warrior?
— from The Lonesome Trail by John G. Neihardt

[340] who are cheaply hungry, and never loose [467] their hunger, or advantage of a craving appetite, because obvious food contents it; while Nero , [341] half famish’d, could not feed upon a piece of Bread, and lingring after his snowed water, hardly got down an ordinary cup of Calda.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

Its first clause declared that “whereas the abolition of all kinds of corporations of citizens of the same estate ( état ) and of the same trade is one of the fundamental bases of the French Constitution, it is prohibited to re-establish them de facto under any pretext or form whatsoever”.
— from Syndicalism in France by Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki) Lorwin

In the territories of the Hermondurians rises the Elbe, a river very famous and formerly well known to us; at present we only hear it named.
— from The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus

To accommodate those who might be disposed to give trifling sums occasionally, for the relief of the poor, and who did not choose to go, or to send to the banker, fixed poor-boxes were placed in all the churches, and most of the inns; coffee-houses; and other places of public resort; but nobody was ever called upon to put any thing into these boxes, nor was any poor's-box carried round, or any private collection or alms-gathering permitted to be made upon any occasion, or under any pretence whatever.
— from Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1 by Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von

But, strange to say, it seemed to complete our own understanding, and precipitated, not only our lovemaking, but the final catastrophe which culminated that romance.
— from The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories by Bret Harte

He did not open a school under a portico, but, as he did his work, all the choicest spirits of Greece resorted to him to argue out these questions in search of truth; and many accounts of these conversations have been preserved to us by his two best pupils, Plato and Xenophon.
— from Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

This latter contrivance was used until a perfect plate of glass was procured.
— from American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by S. D. (Samuel Dwight) Humphrey