To put the plain truth as briefly as possible, if aristocracy means rule by a rich ring, England has aristocracy and the English public schools support it.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"As perfect in form as they are beautiful and poignant in content."
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

Why am I assaulted by a policeman in this fashion?"
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

TREPLIEFF is carrying some pillows and a blanket, and PAULINA is carrying sheets and pillow cases.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It was the high-priest Eliakim’s symbol of office, as being also prefect in the king’s house.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In both these pieces, which inspire such opposite sentiments, a tale exciting admiration is told; both are full of action, both are passionate; in both are voyages, battles, triumphs, and continual changes of fortune.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

His excessive indulgence to his brother, * his wife, and his son, exceeded the bounds of private virtue, and became a public injury, by the example and consequences of their vices.
— 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

Cyrus held in honour Pasargadæ, because he there conquered, in his last battle, Astyages the Mede, and transferred to himself the empire of Asia; he raised it to the rank of a city, and built a palace in memory of his victory.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

In conclusion, it may be stated that although the foregoing are the rules which are usually observed, and that every effort should be made to avoid unnecessary tautology, and to make the blazon as brief as possible, it is by no manner of means considered officially, or unofficially, that any one of these rules is so unchangeable that in actual practice it cannot be modified if it should seem advisable so to do.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

When he was done, he thought, "It would after all be a pity if the pretty little table-cloth were to be spoilt in the forest here," and folded it up tidily and put it in his pocket.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

So Curly Tail got a nice, big board for a boat, and pushed it into the water.
— from Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) by Howard Roger Garis

When, however, deer are bred and protected in parks, they multiply like domestic cattle, and become equally injurious to trees.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

We blackened one set with pitch pine soot, found a piece of plank that would answer for a board and purchased it from its possessor for part of a ration of meal, and so were fitted out with what served until our release to distract our attention from much of the surrounding misery.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

Your average tough is not greatly alarmed by a pistol in the hands of a woman.
— from Men of Affairs by Roland Pertwee

After the firewood had been unloaded, the father of Christine bought a whole bundle of eels and a slaughtered sucking-pig, and all was put into a basket and placed in the stern of the boat.
— from What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

It is indeed a beautiful and poetic idea that civilization is a vast and magnificent edifice of which the first generation laid the corner-stone, and to which each succeeding age contributes new materials and new embellishments.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

Wellesley has almost exclusively women; Bryn Mawr, Vassar, and Smith have both; Radcliffe and Barnard are peculiar, in that by their by-laws Radcliffe is taught only by Harvard instructors, and Barnard only by instructors in Columbia University.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

Strain and bottle and put in ice box, shake before using each time.
— from Good Things to Eat, as Suggested by Rufus A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc. by Rufus Estes

CHAPTER VIII Two years after the events just described, T. X. journeying up to London from Bath was attracted by a paragraph in the Morning Post.
— from The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace

Rarely, in our history, has the action of a single person been attended by a public interest as universal; by applause so hearty in the North, by denunciation so bitter in the South.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine