"I do talk a bit English, do I not?
— from Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany by Edward Lyell Fox

In the meantime, if the course has been “successful,” if the man is enormously developed in the muscles, particularly of the arm and shoulder, it will quite assuredly be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for him to change those muscles whose birth and breeding is due to these {54} slow pushing movements that are intended to overcome the inertia of dead weight, into muscles which have to deal swift, not heavy, blows at objects which for practical purposes (golf balls, tennis balls, even cricket balls) have hardly any inertia at all.
— from Daily Training by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

It is insoluble in hydrochloric acid, but easily dissolves in nitric acid, and when fused with caustic soda it forms sodium vanadate.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

There is also the story that when the death of Napoleon was announced, Beethoven exclaimed: “Did I not foresee the catastrophe when I wrote the Funeral March in the Eroica ?”
— from Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme Notes by Philip Hale

The appearance of a being eminently divine is necessary, who will show the character of his mission and his right to claim obedience by miracles.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

Yes, I'd know thee in a brigade, even did I not see thy peg.
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson

It has a long, soft, cylindrical body tapering to a point at both ends, divided into numerous rings.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville