It was a very useful note, for it supplied them with fresh matter for thought and conversation during the rest of their lonely evening.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous|, absonant[obs3]; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur[Latin: it does not follow].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

And in particular, let us not forget India, that sacred soil, that cradle of the human race, at any rate of the race to which we belong, where first Mohammedans, and later Christians, were most cruelly infuriated against the followers of the original belief of mankind; and the eternally lamentable, wanton, and cruel destruction and disfigurement of the most ancient temples and images, still show traces of the monotheistic rage of the Mohammedans, as it was carried on from Marmud the Ghaznevid of accursed memory, down to Aureng Zeb, the fratricide, whom later the Portuguese Christians faithfully tried to imitate by destroying the temples and the auto da fé of the inquisition at Goa.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Until now, fortunately, I have had to deal only with old priests who, in their good faith, have been satisfied with a very slight examination, and have made a favourable report to the bishop; but I might fall into the hands of some young abbe, and the test would then become a more severe one.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A man offered me a three- hundred-dollar horse, and wanted to take my simple, unendorsed note for it.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Let us not follow it too far.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

We see analogous cases under nature, for instance, the tuft of hair on the breast of the turkey-cock, which can hardly be either useful or ornamental to this bird;—indeed, had the tuft appeared under domestication, it would have been called a monstrosity.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

The general toleration of unnecessary noise, for instance, of the clashing of doors, which is so extremely ill-mannered and vulgar, is a direct proof of the dulness and poverty of thought that one meets with everywhere.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

But rich and poor go jointly for a long stretch; the bond of sympathy between them never breaks; for, if the anarchy is successful, then the poor Jew shall take his place with the rich Jew; and if the anarchy is not successful, it has nevertheless served to break up new fields in which the rich Jew may operate.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

These barriers have been thus frankly stated because they are very real, and while the impulse toward Christian unity now flows in increasing strength from the experiences of the great war, the movement in that direction must acquire far greater momentum before its work can be accomplished.
— from Religion and the War by Yale University. Divinity School

Itzmal Ul, name for Izamal, v., chap.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Chain cables are usually ninety fathoms in length, for large-sized vessels, and sixty for small vessels, as schooners and sloops.
— from The Seaman's Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service by Richard Henry Dana

200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation Djibouti territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm Dominica territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm Dominican Republic measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines territorial sea: 6 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin Ecuador territorial sea: 200 nm continental shelf: 100 nm from 2,500-m isobath Egypt territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation El Salvador territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm Equatorial Guinea territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm Eritrea territorial sea: 12 nm Estonia territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: limits fixed in coordination with neighboring states Ethiopia none (landlocked) European Union NA Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: 200 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm Faroe Islands territorial sea: 3 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or agreed boundaries or median line exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm or agreed boundaries or median line Fiji measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation; rectilinear shelf claim added Finland territorial sea: 12 nm (in the Gulf of Finland - 3 nm) contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive fishing zone: 12 nm; extends to continental shelf boundary with Sweden continental shelf:
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

At that time Miss Lady could count upon no friend in all the world.
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough

It was a slow, drizzling rain,—one of those unwholesome nights frequent in London towards the end of autumn.
— from Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

They then said to Ulf: ‘Now, farewell; I give into thy hands my only son; I ask of thee if thou shouldst come to the king, and thy words might have some influence to get him into his service, for he cannot stay with me hereafter, if our countrymen hear that he has guided thee away, in whatever way I may escape myself.’
— from The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

"What keeps you such a time answering the bell?" inquired she, saucily, "you needn't go up now, for I've got your message; bring up clean cups and a clean saucepan, for everything's destroyed with the dust and dirt Mr. Chancey's after kicking up; what did he do, do you think, but upsets the sack into the fire.
— from The Cock and Anchor by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Moreover, let us not forget it!
— from Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly

Let’s hurry up now, for it is getting late.”
— from Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia by Burt L. Standish