But Josephus wrote his former edition for the use of the Jews beyond Euphrates, and so in the Chaldee language, as he did this second edition in the Greek language; and bar was the Chaldee word for son, instead of the Hebrew ben, and was used not only in Chaldea, etc. but in Judea also, as the New Testament informs us.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

We find in Oceania islands where Europeans have been settled as missionaries or traders perhaps for fifty or a hundred years; we find the people wearing European clothes and European ornaments, using European utensils and even European weapons when they fight; we find them holding the beliefs and practicing the ritual of a European religion; we find them speaking a European language, often even among themselves, and yet investigation shows that much of their social structure remains thoroughly native and uninfluenced, not only in its general form, but often even in its minute details.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

One evening, when Silas Wegg had grown accustomed to the arrival of his patron in a cab, accompanied by some profane historian charged with unutterable names of incomprehensible peoples, of impossible descent, waging wars any number of years and syllables long, and carrying illimitable hosts and riches about, with the greatest ease, beyond the confines of geography—one evening the usual time passed by, and no patron appeared.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Just as Reason in the theoretical consideration of nature must assume the Idea of an unconditioned necessity of its original ground, so also it presupposes in the practical [sphere] its own (in respect of nature) unconditioned causality, or freedom, in that it is conscious of its own moral command.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

If you see a Man more full of Gesture than ordinary in a publick Assembly, if loud upon no Occasion, if negligent of the Company round him, and yet laying wait for destroying by that Negligence, you may take it for granted that he has ruined many a Fair One.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Now, I will venture to assert, that these tragedies are so uniform, not only in their borrowed phraseology—a phraseology with which writers like Boethius and Saxo Grammaticus were more charmed than ourselves—in their freedom from real poetry, and last, but not least, in an ultra-refined and consistent abandonment of good taste, that few writers of the present day would question the capabilities of the same gentleman, be he Seneca or not, to produce not only these, but a great many more equally bad.
— from The Iliad by Homer

It seemed as though nothing could follow: that I should watch for ever, seeing only the Hand and the thing it held, and understanding nothing of its import.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

We use none of it here.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

With this view, he sent a special embassy, composed of great noblemen who had nothing particular to do, and wanted lucrative employment, to a neighbouring king, and demanded his fair daughter in marriage for his son; stating at the same time that he was anxious to be on the most affectionate terms with his brother and friend, but that if they couldn’t agree in arranging this marriage, he should be under the unpleasant necessity of invading his kingdom and putting his eyes out.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

upirturyu n offertory in the mass.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

we know thou leavest us not, only in our weakness we would comfort our hearts with the music of the words of faith.
— from Thomas Wingfold, Curate by George MacDonald

Organization of Eastern Caribbean States OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OIC Organization of the Islamic Conference OIF International Organization of the French-speaking World ONUB United Nations Operation in Burundi OOF other official flows OPANAL Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean OPCW Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The assistance of induction is to serve us not only in the discovery of axioms, but also in defining our notions.
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

I understood nothing of it.
— from Your United States: Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett

She said that she perceived her majesty was displeased with her; she could not tell what the cause might be, unless it was religion; and for this, she said, she might be reasonably forgiven; she had been educated, as the queen was aware, in the modern belief, and she understood no other; if her majesty would send her books and teachers, she would read; she would listen; she could say no more.
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

The cross has its proper significance in this use not only in representing quite faithfully the shape of the insect but also the angle of his approach.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

For I will resolutely say that his unfavourable notion of it was owing to prejudice and imperfect or false information.
— from Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations by James Boswell

First, however, she made him kneel and swear that he would conduct himself toward the youthful king, Enrique, as a thorough friend and a loyal vassal, guarding his person from all harm; that he would respect the property of individuals, and undertake nothing of importance without the counsel and consent of Queen Berenguela.
— from Spanish Papers by Washington Irving

But being unable to bear the solitude and silence of my house, I left my country, for to deaden memory by turning the eyes upon new objects is a great palliative to grief.
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus