Noguchi eventually went with me in 1869 to England, where I paid for his schooling during a couple of years.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

I not only postulate a morrow when I prepare for it, but ingenuously and heartily believe that the morrow will come.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Thus all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Then it seemed to him that the church also was shaking, moving, becoming endued with animation, that it was alive; that each of the great columns was turning into an enormous paw, which was beating the earth with its big stone spatula, and that the gigantic cathedral was no longer anything but a sort of prodigious elephant, which was breathing and marching with its pillars for feet, its two towers for trunks and the immense black cloth for its housings.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Now, when they were alone together in a remote part of the barn, whether it proceeded from the strong liquor, which is never so apt to inflame inordinate desire as after moderate fatigue; or whether the fair gypsy herself threw aside the delicacy and decency of her sex, and tempted the youth Partridge with express solicitations; but they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Poor Necker in the midst of such an anarchy does what is possible for him.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

A new race of intimate friends has sprung up at Veneering's since he went into Parliament for the public good, to whom Mrs Veneering is very attentive.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Just as if it were possible to imagine another mode of intuition than that given in the primitive intuition of space; and just as if its a priori determinations did not apply to everything, the existence of which is possible, from the fact alone of its filling space.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

[ The supper of savory meat, as we call it, Genesis 27:4, to be caught by hunting, was intended plainly for a festival or a sacrifice; and upon the prayers that were frequent at sacrifices, Isaac expected, as was then usual in such eminent cases, that a divine impulse would come upon him, in order to the blessing of his son there present, and his foretelling his future behavior and fortune.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

, wasted idly, P. ( For- 1 .)
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Me the beastial life And not the human pleas'd, mule that I was, Who in Pistoia found my worthy den."
— from The vision of hell. By Dante Alighieri. Translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. and illustrated with the seventy-five designs of Gustave Doré. by Dante Alighieri

Foiled in his efforts to get the visitor away, he now came a little closer to the trio, with the expression of a person who is prepared for the worst.
— from Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

The bar and the barman and the cloak-room attendant (another man of genius) are only the prelude to the great supper-hall, which is simply and completely dazzling, with its profuse festoons of electric bulbs, its innumerable naked shoulders, arms, and bosoms, its fancy costumes, its bald heads, its music, clatter, and tinkle, and its desperate gaiety.
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett

Practically, it does nothing of the sort, for the reason that no machinery whatever is provided for the enforcing of responsibility.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

The man was an Avatar of Vishnu or Siva; his supreme apotheosis is now complete, and the Brahmins feel warranted in providing for him a niche in the orthodox pantheon.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

"Now remember, Jimmieboy," said the voice, as the overshoe with its passengers floated softly up to the huge snow-pier that ran out into the river at this point where they disembarked—"remember I am to do all the talking.
— from Half-Hours with Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs

Kephir, which is prepared from the milk of kine, and koumiss, which is a product of mares’ milk, are notably alcoholic.
— from The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies by Elie Metchnikoff

Turbot and salmon are said by the fishmongers to be improved in flavour when 2 or 3 days old, but this is surely a mistake, as the former, when dressed immediately after being caught, possesses a fine creamy taste, which it afterwards loses; whilst the latter, by the loss of a single tide, loses a portion of the fine white curd which is previously found between the flakes, and by longer keeping, this curd, with the larger flakes, disappear altogether.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Among other things, she was trying to determine what it was in Prudence Ffolliott's face that made it interesting, and that gave it something very much more effective than beauty of feature.
— from Friendship and Folly: A Novel by Maria Louise Pool