"Uncle John," broke in Willie Allgood, "there is a certain island situated between England and France, and yet that island is farther from France than England is.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

“I don’t see any cattle,” I suggested, but Terry was silent.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

So I lose none In seeking to augment it, but still keep My bosom franchised and allegiance clear, I shall be counsel'd.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And when a child is stolen by the Munster fairies, ‘Lough Gur is conjectured to be the place of its unearthly transmutation from the human to the fairy state.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The Bishop of Durham has: (1) His official coat of arms, (2) his coronetted mitre, which is peculiar to himself , and (which is another privilege also peculiar to himself alone) he places a sword and a crosier in saltire behind his arms.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

“If I were sole owner we’d shake hands on it now, my dear Dantès, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb— Chi ha compagno ha padrone —‘He who has a partner has a master.’
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And now you see,’ whimpered Mrs. Gradgrind, adjusting her shawls after the affectionate ceremony, ‘I shall be worrying myself, morning, noon, and night, to know what I am to call him!’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

So I lose none In seeking to augment it, but still keep My bosom franchis'd, and allegiance clear, I shall be counsell'd.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Nietzsche himself, indeed, recommends this in Aphorism 103 of this book, an aphorism which is almost too well known to need repetition; for it likewise disproves the grotesque though widely circulated supposition that all kinds of immorality would be indulged in under the sway of the “Immoralistic” philosopher: “I should not, of course, deny—unless I were a fool—that many actions which are called immoral should be avoided and resisted; and in the same way that many which are called moral should be performed and encouraged; but I hold that in both cases these actions should be performed from motives other than those which have prevailed up to the present time.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I'll have nothing to do wi' a 'cademy again: whativer school I send Tom to, it sha'n't be a 'cademy; it shall be a place where the lads spend their time i' summat else besides blacking the family's shoes, and getting up the potatoes.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

When the pair arrive at the bridegroom’s house, the fan is again waved over their heads; and a cloth is spread before the house, on which seven burning wicks are placed like the previous ones.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

While Java is the most prolific in volcanoes of the islands of the Malayan Archipelago, other islands of the group possess active cones, including Sumatra, Bali, Amboyna, Banda and others.
— from The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

At noon dined at home and Creed with me, then parted, and I to the office, and anon called thence by Sir H. Cholmley and he and I to my chamber, and there settled our matters of accounts, and did give him tallys and money to clear him, and so he being gone and all these accounts cleared I shall be even with the King, so as to make a very clear and short account in a very few days, which pleases me very well.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 42: March/April 1665-66 by Samuel Pepys

That some of the ancients knew that the Milky Way is composed of stars is shown by the following lines translated from Ovid:— “A way there is in heaven’s extended plain Which when the skies are clear is seen below And mortals, by the name of Milky, know; The groundwork is of stars, through which the road Lies open to great Jupiter’s abode.”
— from Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard (John Ellard) Gore

In all cases it should be mixed with the milk.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Not only is the building "paved with princes and a royal race," their memory a mingling of grandeur and of shame, but the uncrowned glories of the nation, the true and pure and gifted, lie there as well under our feet, or are commemorated in stone before our eyes.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

The procedure in drawing a chicken is simple, but some practice is required before deftness will result.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

However, the young woman had all her buttons on; and after he had talked to her, she said cheerfully: "Without a chaperon I should be conspicuous, and without a fat purse I should be handicapped.
— from A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick

2 A Capon in stewed broth with marrow-bones.
— from The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by Robert May

If you like to come back here when you are calmer, I shall be very pleased to listen to what you have to say.'
— from A Woman Intervenes by Robert Barr