I don't haf to give up my own propaty, even if you did come on over here and told us a big l—” “ I NEVER!” shouted Roddy.
— from Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington

That such men should meet and associate but little, is not surprising.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various

The patterns have also become limited in number, so that to-day the entire output of Persian fabrics comprises only about thirty original designs, but of these the varieties of form, arrangement and combination are very large.
— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis

It was the parent-house of cells at Carlton in Moreland, Choseley and Tilton, the property at the former place being charged with the support of four lepers, but whether maintained there or at Burton Lazars is not stated.
— from The Mediæval Hospitals of England by Rotha Mary Clay

A black lake is not so beautiful as an ordinary lake.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

On account of the absence of game-scourge markets, a Bayne law is not so imperatively necessary there as in certain other states.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

From Dipodomys ordii priscus , D. o. luteolus differs in: Size larger except hind foot which is shorter; dorsal and ventral stripes of tail, plantar surfaces of hind feet, arietiform markings and pinnae of ears, in most specimens, darker; auditory bullae less inflated; nasals shorter; rostrum wider; total length of skull shorter; zygomatic arch weaker; foramen magnum more ovate.
— from Subspeciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii KU. Vol 1 No 23 by Henry W. Setzer

‘Well, my dear father superior,’ I answered him, ‘that reliable father has told you a big lie; I never said such a thing, for the good reason that I sincerely think that our present Pope is one of the wisest that ever ruled the church.’”
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy