The induction of the ancients has been well described by Bacon, under the name of “Inductio per enumerationem simplicem, ubi non reperitur instantia contradictoria.”
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

The League, gliding so long unheeded, now reared its crest in the very palace of France, and full in the monarch's face.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1584-85a by John Lothrop Motley

"If you try to marry anyone else," the letter ended on a cruelly ugly note, "remember I can spoil your little game for you, Joan.
— from To Love by Margaret Peterson

"Ah, let us not recall it; care and trouble, conflict and struggle, will be sure to come.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

Iudaei ergo (quoniam parasceve erat), ut non remanerent in cruce corpora sabbato (erat enim magnus dies ille sabbati), rogaverunt Pilatum ut frangerentur eorum crura, et tollerentur.
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory

Let us now revise it carefully, place it on sure, but moderate foundations, so that it will have in itself the elements of future stability.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

But now I have given thee life because of the asking of this lady; and therewith I give thee leave to come thy ways with us: nay, rather I command thee to come, for thou art my prisoner, to be kept or ransomed, or set free as I will.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

In the absence, then, of any universal law of co-existence similar to the universal law of causation which regulates sequence, we are thrown back upon the unscientific induction of the ancients, per enumerationem simplicem, ubi non reperitur instantia contradictoria .
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill