He represented to the emperor the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills [34] would not circulate under nine per cent, below par; that I had cost his majesty above a million and a half of sprugs (their greatest gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle); and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

But, as they had then no care for my honour, I am under no present concern to be careful of theirs; and if I am herein mortar
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

But because we are very easily seduced into employing these pure cognitions and principles of the understanding by themselves, and that even beyond the boundaries of experience, which yet is the only source whence we can obtain matter (objects) on which those pure conceptions may be employed—understanding runs the risk of making, by means of empty sophisms, a material and objective use of the mere formal principles of the pure understanding, and of passing judgements on objects without distinction—objects which are not given to us, nay, perhaps cannot be given to us in any way.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

He represented to the emperor “the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills would not circulate under nine per cent.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

surrendering &c. v.; submissive, resigned, crouching; downtrodden; down on one's marrow bones; on one's bended knee; unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting; pliant &c. (soft) 324; undefended.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"The first consideration," she communed within herself, "is that the household is made up of mixed elements, and things might be lost; the second is that the preparations are under no particular control, with the result that, when the time comes, the servants might shirk their duties; the third is that the necessary expenditure being great, there will be reckless disbursements and counterfeit receipts; the fourth, that with the absence of any distinction in the matter of duties, whether large or small, hardship and ease will be unequally shared; and the fifth, that the servants being arrogant, through leniency, those with any self-respect will not brook control, while those devoid of 'face' will not be able to improve their ways."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Ita clausae pharmacis ut non possunt coitum exercere.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

real, actual, positive, absolute; true &c. 494; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential. well-founded, well-grounded; unideal[obs3], unimagined; not potential &c. 2; authentic.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Monks, anchorites, and the like, after much emptiness, become melancholy, vertiginous, they think they hear strange noises, confer with hobgoblins, devils, rivel up their bodies, et dum hostem insequimur , saith Gregory, civem quem diligimus, trucidamus , they become bare skeletons, skin and bones; Carnibus abstinentes proprias carnes devorant, ut nil praeter cutem et ossa sit reliquum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Some have supposed, it is true, that like the marmot, they lie torpid during the cold season; and it is observed in 'Long's Expedition,' that, "as they pass the winter in a lethargic state, they lay up no provisions," &c.:
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg

They learned with amazement, that notwithstanding the positive assurances held out by the United States Government, that "the flag of the United States would for ever wave, and be unalterably planted over the Californias," and that under no possible contingency could the U. S. ever give up or abandon the possession of the Californias, as conveyed through the official proclamations of the Naval Commanders on the coast, they had been duped, with these texts for their support—to defend our citizens and to fight under our colors, at the loss of standing, property, and life itself, and afterwards were to be taught a commentary upon the good faith of our Government.
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

The day's ride began under no pleasant conditions.
— from In the West Country by Francis A. (Francis Arnold) Knight

He was bold to the point of telling her things unconventionally, of beguiling her into remote underground passages away from the party; yet she understood; she knew at once that he was a determined but unspoiled gentleman; that under no provocation could he make a mistake.
— from The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson

U Na per cent.
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

Above all, let us not presumptuously conclude certain passages to be irrecoverably obscure, without consulting the many able commentators who have treated on them; but as the library of a mother may not be extensively theological, let us apply for information to those pious pastors, and studious men, who have made these commentators their particular study.
— from Fenelon's Treatise on the Education of Daughters Translated from the French, and Adapted to English Readers by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon

Christianity paints no Utopias, describes to us no perfect conditions to be introduced into this world.
— from The Socialist by Guy Thorne

For which (said she) I do not hate him, tho’ his Father kill’d my Uncle: Nay, perhaps (continu’d she)
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume V by Aphra Behn

If no waves of heat warmed the earth, not a seed could spring up; no plant could live, no tree bear fruit, no flower lift up its head to the kindly light and show its fair colours; for do you not remember we learnt that the colours of flowers all come from the sunlight?
— from Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham