She took the first opportunity of affronting her mother-in-law on the occasion, talking to her so expressively of her brother's great expectations, of Mrs. Ferrars's resolution that both her sons should marry well, and of the danger attending any young woman who attempted to DRAW HIM IN; that Mrs. Dashwood could neither pretend to be unconscious, nor endeavor to be calm.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

For, that this table is useful in the theoretical part of philosophy, nay, indispensable for the sketching of the complete plan of a science, so far as that science rests upon conceptions a priori, and for dividing it mathematically, according to fixed principles, is most manifest from the fact that it contains all the elementary conceptions of the understanding, nay, even the form of a system of these in the understanding itself, and consequently indicates all the momenta, and also the internal arrangement of a projected speculative science, as I have elsewhere shown.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

5 Let us now envisage the scene of such a totem meal and let us embellish it further with a few probable features which could not be adequately considered before.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

In extinguishing thirst, they use not equal temperance.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

Fernand understood nothing except that Dantès was absent.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

There were several, the bottoms of which were formed like a sugar-loaf upside down, thus neither allowing the prisoner to stand up, nor even to adopt a tolerable position sitting or lying down.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

[177] If at the theatre, opera, or in a concert-room, you see an acquaintance, you are not expected to recognize her, unless near enough to speak.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Praesertim vêrô ingentem silvam mîrâbâtur, quae tantae magnitûdinis esse dîcêbâtur 9 ut nêmô eam trânsîre posset, nec quisquam scîret aut initium aut fînem.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Honestly, dad, on some of these dark cold nights in the trenches, it heartens and braces me up no end to think that thousands of miles away at the old Glen station there is a small spotted dog sharing my vigil.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

One chance in a thousand is always a chance, while death from hunger gave us not even the faintest glimpse of hope.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

284 A pair of these breeches is never ornamented with paint, as they are usually not exposed to view.
— from Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, pages 159-350 by Lucien M. (Lucien McShan) Turner

But your appetite ithn't the leatht bit utheful, not even to yourthelf."
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat; Or, the Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover by Janet Aldridge

Case of eight Kaffir boys.—On or about July 17, 1901, eight Kaffir boys, between the ages of twelve and fourteen, went out from Uitkijk, near Edenburg, to get oranges.
— from The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct by Arthur Conan Doyle

He gave us nothing except the assegai, and cattle, and rain-making; and he did not give us hearts like yours.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

Gestures all graceful, eye all fire, language rough, but strong, and an enthusiasm that was magnetic—a kind of unpremeditated natural eloquence, that many a one has sought for, but never found.
— from The Puddleford Papers; Or, Humors of the West by Henry Hiram Riley

In short, let us offer up a sacrifice to the general peace, let us not listen when they speak of us, when they praise us, blame us, wish for us, or hope for us—nay, let us not even think of it.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There is usually no evidence that the loss was due to chlorinated water but it is generally impossible to convince the owners that the process of water treatment was not the cause.
— from Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race

i' th' house, nursing th' fire, an' such weather too, and not a soul coming near us, not even to fall out wi' him; for thee and me must na' do that, for th' Bible's sake, dear; and a good stand-up wordy quarrel would do him a power of good; stir his blood like.
— from Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Though, as has been pointed out, it is a fact that the hind-feet are often on a different plane of evolution from the fore-feet, it seems that this amount of difference does not characterise any Ungulate, not excepting the genus now under consideration.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard