For example, it's currently easier and cheaper for someone to buy one of our books than to photocopy a book — in its entirety.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In the morning to my Lord’s, and there dined with my Lady, and after dinner with Mr. Creed and Captain Ferrers to the Theatre to see “The Chances,” and after that to the Cock alehouse, where we had a harp and viallin played to us, and so home by coach to Sir W. Batten’s, who seems so inquisitive when my house will be made an end of that I am troubled to go thither.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Upon the whole, the behaviour of these animals was so orderly and rational, so acute and judicious, that I at last concluded they must needs be magicians, who had thus metamorphosed themselves upon some design, and seeing a stranger in the way, resolved to divert themselves with him; or, perhaps, were really amazed at the sight of a man so very different in habit, feature, and complexion, from those who might probably live in so remote a climate.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Imagine an absolutely material world, containing only physical and chemical facts, and existing from eternity without a God, without even an interested spectator: would there be any sense in saying of that world that one of its states is better than another?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

But the mere mass of water, whose waves ran down in a headlong torrent, seemed to forbid all crossing; for it was full of hidden reefs, and the whole length of its channel was turbid with a kind of whirl of foam.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

SIR KNIGHT PELLEAS, said the Damosel of the Lake, take your horse and come forth with me out of this country, and ye shall love a lady that shall love you.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Each little knoll in fancy became crowned with a chapel; from each dark canon gleamed the white walls of a mission building.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

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— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

It is quite true that no one can endow himself with either, since a man inherits prudence from his mother and courage from his father; still, if he has these qualities, he can do much to develop them by means of resolute exercise.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

But just to show you how liberal I am, I'm going to send a check for ten bucks to this Beecher Ingram, because a lot of fellows are saying the poor cuss preaches sedition and free love, and they're trying to run him out of town.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The President remarked that the news would come soon and come favorably, he had no doubt, for he had last night his usual dream which had preceded nearly every important event of the war.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

Like many a younger son rejoicing in a titled extraction, coupled with probably only a slender portion of the family patrimony, the wooing of a distaff—who, beside let us hope, being endowed with her full share of love's talisman, personal attractions, enjoyed also the further potent charm of being an heiress to boot—brought the father of our knight from the fens of Lincolnshire to the distant altitudes of Wilts, and in winning the hand of Anne Cheney for a wife, subsequently became in her right
— from The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) Rogers

But at last she started from her seat with an exclamation of delight that awoke Chloe; for this time there could be no doubt; she had heard his well-known step upon the stairs.
— from Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" by Martha Finley

Had he not played such a daring game he would have cut rather a comic figure.
— from The Hermit Doctor of Gaya: A Love Story of Modern India by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

The Kilburn (St. Augustine’s) Orphanage of Mercy, and the London Bible-women’s Mission are also centers for the training and organizing of women’s work in London.
— from Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America by Jane M. (Jane Marie) Bancroft

And the night before he went away his mother told him to take a can and go to the well and bring back some water, and she would bake a cake for him to carry with him.
— from The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson

[55] that a certain famous liberty man had sworn to be his butcher.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

If he had died, I should only have been concerned for that the world had lost a light; but the man that I am concerned for now was one that never was good, therefore such an one who is not dead only, but damned.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

That evening I sat in a comfortable arm-chair before a cheerful fire, in a cozy dormitory study of Lincoln College, Oxford.
— from From Job to Job around the World by Alfred C. B. (Alfred Charles Benson) Fletcher