" "Very well," said Mr. Vincy, kicking in spite of resolutions, "I never professed to be anything but worldly; and, what's more, I don't see anybody else who is not worldly.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But because knowledge is subjective or relative to the mind, we are not to suppose that we are therefore deprived of any of the tests or criteria of truth.
— from Theaetetus by Plato

I have kindred in Salerno, of rich estate.
— from French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie, de France, active 12th century

It may exist for aught we know in some other region of space, or in another time than ours.
— from The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc

Without searching into the causes of the unhappy revolution in favour of Cossim Ali Khan, I shall only remark, that if the same plan of politics had been pursued, after he was placed upon the throne, as that which I had observed towards his predecessor, he might with great ease have remained there to this day, without having it in his power to injure either himself or the Company in the manner he has lately done.
— from The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, Vol. 2 (of 3) Collected from the Family Papers Communicated by the Earl of Powis by John Malcolm

Already, as is well known, in spite of repeated professions of friendship, the whole of South America views the great country at the North with suspicion; and the ultimate reason for the feeling is that in South America the color line is a vanishing quantity, whereas in the United States it is a very definite reality.
— from Your Negro Neighbor by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

"I know its signs, or rather those of dread.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Captain Hildebrand lay quietly down on the deck, and writhed and kicked in spasms of racking mirth; but his trusty lieutenant, after laughing a while, looked grave, and said, "The poor man will take cold.
— from The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson

The land seemed as goodly as might be, and all the folk they met were kind, if somewhat over reverent.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

The pursuit of personal gain was replaced by a desire to work for the good of all, and now a keen individual sense of right and duty actuates the entire population, and is paramount in all things.
— from Zarlah the Martian by R. Norman (Robert Norman) Grisewood