" "Where has this mad fellow stolen that sacramental vessel?" exclaimed the Episcopal clergyman.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yet they both agree in this, that they cannot possibly spring from the principle of analysis, viz., the law of contradiction, alone; they require a quite different principle, though, from whatever they may be deduced, they must be subject to the law of contradiction, which must never be violated, even though everything cannot be deduced from it.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Fine music, from the vague emotions thus excited, causes a shiver to run down the backs of some persons.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

[ The office of vizier was superseded by the emir al Omra, Imperator Imperatorum, a title first instituted by Radhi, and which merged at length in the Bowides and Seljukides: vectigalibus, et tributis, et curiis per omnes regiones praefecit, jussitque in omnibus suggestis nominis ejus in concionibus mentionem fieri, (Abulpharagius, Dynart.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He was ashamed of himself for his vain endeavor to envelop Charity Coe and absorb her into the deeps of his love.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

Virginia established the Episcopal Church by law.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

* After a fortnight of vain efforts to escape, Christophe returned to Anna.
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

Sicut viri equitant, tendunt, et currunt per patriam pro negotijs sic et mulieres, quoniam et ipse operantur omnia ferè artificia mechanica sicut pannos et quicquid efficiter de panno, corio, sericoque, minantque carrucas, et vehicula, sed viri fabricant de ferro et de omni metallo, lapidibus atque ligno, nec vir nec mulier nobilis aut degener comedit vltra semel in die communiter.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

Thousands of champions, mounted on more elevated spots, engage in single combat, and seize each other with their powerful jaws; a still greater number are engaged on both sides in taking prisoners, which make vain efforts to escape, conscious of the cruel fate which awaits them when arrived at the hostile formicary.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

It turns this way and that in its vain effort to escape corruption.
— from The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Stephen Leacock