That opinion has taken such deep root in the imagination, that it is impossible ever to eradicate it, nor will any strained metaphysical conviction of the dependence of our perceptions be sufficient for that purpose.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The ceremony of breakfast is over, and I am sorry again you cannot all share in these daily festivals which add so much to the dignity of living.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

‘Such was my family when I began house-keeping in this place, with three hundred pounds in my pocket, raised from the sale of my superfluous furniture.—I knew we should find occupation enough through the day to employ our time; but I dreaded the long winter evenings; yet, for those too we found a remedy: The curate, who was a single man, soon became so naturalized to the family, that he generally lay in the house; and his company was equally agreeable and useful.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

tabilus n k.o. slipmouth with a small mouth which could be elongated when stretched: Leiognathus sp .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A savage in all the horrible acceptation of the word, and so much the more frightful that he seemed fallen to the lowest degree of brutishness!
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a sun-bonnet, and some women’s underclothes hanging against the wall, and some men’s clothing, too.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

At the end of the street, and standing a little way back from the roadway, is the White Hart, once a famous coaching inn, and one which, although somewhat modernized, still carries its emblem, a large white hart, above the main entrance.
— from The Heart of Wessex by Sidney Heath

Lucille now blushed, and with a slight mixture of pain in the blush, for she knew well that to beauty she had no pretension.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 2, October, 1834 by Various

“Why that,” he said with a start, “must be the young savage with a stout heart who helped us out of a jam last night.
— from Whispers at Dawn; Or, The Eye by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

In sections the larger game is gone yet there is in parts of the North, West and South much good trapping territory that will pay the hardy trappers for years to come.
— from Fox Trapping: A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot A Valuable Book for Trappers by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

"We show exactly what a savage man is and would ever be, without the refining influence of women.
— from Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

She 101 was a substitute, Mr. Bryan recognised that, and made allowance accordingly, “but”—then he went.
— from Emmy Lou: Her Book and Heart by George Madden Martin

In like manner, in the sphere of the will, it is not merely immoral volitions, which, as such, must ever be false and wrong, that are exclusively the source of erroneous thought.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel