As for instance, “If Dion is a horse, Dion is an animal; but Dion is not a horse, therefore, Dion is not an animal.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

A copy of the resolution of the Academic Board, passed at their session of April 1,1861: "Resolved, That in the resignation of the late superintendent, Colonel W. T. Sherman, the Academic Board deem it not improper to express their deep conviction of the loss the institution has sustained in being thus deprived of an able head.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Informal dinner dresses are worn in the boxes at the opera on ordinary nights, such as when no especially great star is to sing, and when one is not going on to a ball afterward, but a ball dress is never inappropriate, especially without head-dress.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

but it seems rather an absurd blind, does it not?
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a brook brawling over the stones, very much as brooks do in New England, only we never think of calling them rivers there.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In common-battery multiple switchboards the A -boards differ in no respect from the standard single office multiple boards, except that immediately above the answering jacks and below the multiple there are arranged in suitable numbers the jacks of the outgoing trunks.
— from Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by American School of Correspondence

To substantiate this claim of the mosques, a brief digression is necessary.
— from Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

2387 Dionysius of Halicarnassius derives the name of this people from Peucetius, son of Lycaon king of Arcadia, but they are generally spoken of in history as barbarians, differing in no essential respect from the Daunii, Iapyges, and other neighbouring nations.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

"All advances by degrees in Nature, and nothing by leaps.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

So that when, after a brilliant début in New York and a winter season there in which her wit and beauty, to say nothing of her horsemanship and exquisite dancing had made her the belle of that critical metropolis (not too large, then, for one reigning toast), she married one of the country's most prominent young lawyers, already suggested for high posts abroad, it was felt that America would honour both herself and whatever Court should receive these two young fortunates from her hands.
— from The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Dat I was found in a basket, dressed in nice baby clothes, on de railroad track at Dawkins, S. C. De engineer stop de train, got out, and found me sumpin' like de princess found Moses, but not in de bulrushes.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

By night and by day it never left her.
— from The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

In a short time the slope below Middleton presented a curious sight; four hundred men and boys dressed in new uniforms with shining brass buttons were digging a long trench that stretched from the railway track to a steep bluff on the east.
— from Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various