We must not repose in the fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

A Sansculottism, which has prostrated Bastilles, which has got pike and musket, and now goes burning Chateaus, passing resolutions and haranguing under roof and sky, may be said to have sprung; and, by law of Nature, must grow.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

And because many seek knowledge rather than good living, therefore they go astray, and bear little or no fruit.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

But if you'd like to stop here a bit longer—?” “Oh, no!” said Janey quickly.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Concrete material upon group behavior has rapidly accumulated, but little or no progress has been made in its sociological explanation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Faremoûtier-en-Brie (Farae Monasterium in Brige), founded circ. 617 by Fara, or Burgundofara, a Burgundian lady of noble birth, said to have been dedicated by St. Columba in her infancy.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

If it is true that most amateurs bestow little or no attention upon the feet of a woman, it is likewise a fact that most readers care little or nothing whether a book is of the first edition or the tenth.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[ The Paschal Chronicle, which sometimes introduces fragments of history into a barren list of names and dates, gives the best account of the treason of the Avars, p. 389, 390.
— 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

The monopolies are based largely on non-competitive transportation.
— from The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone—Crockett—Carson by Emerson Hough

The great number of the old pigne inscriptions gives a better list of names of the citizens of the second century B.C. and earlier than can be found in any other Latin town.
— from A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

His host thereupon threw up the blind and both looked out: no living creature was there except a St Vincent parrot dozing on his perch in the shaded verandah.
— from Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Peace congress, 1861, ii. 350 ; suggested by Virginia, 350 ; adopted by Legislature of New York, 350 ; dels.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

In every direction, new streets are being laid out, new buildings are going up, old ones are being repaired, and the entire city gives the impression of rapid growth and increasing prosperity, all improvements being of the most substantial and imposing character.
— from By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel by Laura G. Case Collins

His work is characterized by altruism, by all-embracing sympathy, by emphasis on the social side of democracy, and by love of nature and the sea.
— from History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

As long as the Carnegie Museum stands, this splendid example of the great sea-tortoise will be admired by lovers of nature.
— from The Life of a Fossil Hunter by Charles H. (Charles Hazelius) Sternberg

In the vertebrata, we find a brain with a spinal cord, and branching lines of nervous tissue.
— from Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers