The three forms of speech are but dialects of one language: a fact that has long been known.
— from Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

[15] With the exception of the dedication of his Palamon and Arcite to the young and beautiful Duchess of Ormonde (Lady Anne Somerset, daughter of the Duke of Beaufort.)
— from The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

A brief description of our little ships and equipment will help to a better understanding of our cruise.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, August, 1880 by Various

I will give you a beautiful description of our life there and of my darling mother if I see her."
— from Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Michael Sage

She never would know it, and I should carry the remembrance of it with me into the grave, and a rose perhaps grow out of my dust, as a brier did out of Lord Lovers, in memory of that immortal moment!
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

When Marse Tim lef’ here he sont Buck an’ Bell, de onlies’ ones livin’, to ole man Bob Bolick, his no ’count
— from Tar Heel Tales by H. E. C. (Henry Edward Cowan) Bryant

“O never mind, Frances,” Elsie Harding whispered under cover of a brisk discussion on old ladies, that Lena’s words had started, “Lena’s just talking for effect.
— from The Torch Bearer: A Camp Fire Girls' Story by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston

The exclusion from the courts of the malign influence of all authorities after the Georgium sidus became ascendant, would uncanonize Blackstone, whose book, although the most elegant and best digested of our law catalogue, has been perverted more than all others, to the degeneracy of legal science.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

No other will be aware of the comparative importance of different facts, nor consequently know what facts to look for, or to observe; still less will he be capable of estimating the evidence of facts which, as is [pg 635] the case with most, can not be ascertained by direct observation or learned from testimony, but must be inferred from marks.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill