"Oh, there was a little account between us," said Dunsey, carelessly, "and Wildfire made it even.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

But these two powers, political and paternal, are so perfectly distinct and separate; are built upon so different foundations, and given to so different ends, that every subject that is a father, has as much a paternal power over his children, as the prince has over his: and every prince, that has parents, owes them as much filial duty and obedience, as the meanest of his subjects do to their's; and can therefore contain not any part or degree of that kind of dominion, which a prince or magistrate has over his subject.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

And blood untainted still doth red abide, Blushing at that which is so putrified.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

You will not debark at Beaufort until so directed.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Before attempting to learn to sail it is well to know something of the principles of sailing and just why a boat under sail does certain things.
— from The Book of the Sailboat: How to rig, sail and handle small boats by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

C6-431 In one he reported that he had been evicted from the office he claimed to have opened, so that he “worked out of a post office box and by useing street demonstrations and some circular work * * * sustained a great deal of interest but no new members.”
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

She would never bother with any one so feeble as Mary again, but, unless she did, how was she ever to have any fun again?
— from The Golden Scarecrow by Hugh Walpole

We may quote here a notion referred to in “Lucrece” (1744-50), that, ever since the sad death of Lucrece, corrupted blood has watery particles: “About the mourning and congealed face Of that black blood a watery rigol goes, Which seems to weep upon the tainted place: And ever since, as pitying Lucrece’ woes, Corrupted blood some watery token shows; And blood untainted still doth red abide, Blushing at that which is so putrefied.”
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

Clara and I were the last to leave our seats, and as we followed the crowd that had gathered in the aisles before us she did not speak, but the hand that rested in mine trembled like a frightened bird.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various

[Pg 112] roads were constructed from one extremity of the kingdom to the other; manufactories of various kinds were established and encouraged; the arts were rewarded; agriculture received a new impulse; the army was efficiently organized and brought under salutary discipline; a topographical bureau was created, the whole kingdom carefully surveyed, and a fine map constructed.
— from Joseph Bonaparte Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Examinations being once passed, books are laid aside; the greater part of what has been acquired, being unorganised, soon drops out of recollection; what remains is mostly inert—the art of applying knowledge not having been cultivated; and there is but little power either of accurate observation or independent thinking.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer