What an impressive and beautiful tribute to motherhood it would be for a whole nation to unite one day in wearing its chosen emblem, and in song and speech, and other appropriate exercises, to honor its mothers!
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

this evening we herd upwards of twenty Shot and expect they have fallen in with and killed Several of them.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

However, a fishmonger, one of their cousins (who had even brought a pair of soles for his wedding present), began to squirt water from his mouth through the keyhole, when old Rouault came up just in time to stop him, and explain to him that the distinguished position of his son-in-law would not allow of such liberties.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The attitude of the strong towards the weak is branded as evil; the highest states of the strong become bad bywords.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Every kind of doctor was asked to come in, and every treatment had recourse to; and, though of such medicines as cinnamon, aconitum seeds, turtle shell, ophiopogon, Yü-chü herb, and the like, he took several tens of catties, he nevertheless experienced no change for the better; so that by the time the twelfth moon drew once again to an end, and spring returned, this illness had become still more serious.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

A sister, Petrona, for some years had been a dressgoods merchant in nearby Kalamba, on an estate that had recently come under the same ownership as Biñan.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

But to the above causes must be assigned the fact that, among his brothers, he did no more than accomplish the general purport of the principle of human affections; bearing in mind no thought whatever that he himself was a human being of the male sex, and that it was his duty to be an example to his younger brothers.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

at half after eleven the hunters returned from the chase unsuccessfull.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The eyes washed therewith, it takes away the redness and bloodshot; and the hands washed morning and evening therewith, helps the palsy, and shaking of them.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The former of these methods seemed unlikely to occur, as the number of people who meet with accidents is really very small, and as to the latter, although he was no coward yet he shrank with a vague dread from putting an end to his present existence.
— from The Gentleman Who Vanished: A Psychological Phantasy by Fergus Hume

Consequently, the primary unbegotten principle, by intelligencing himself, produces an intellectual image, absolutely equal to himself, the act of intelligencing being infinite, and also distinct from him, inasmuch as they are opposed as principle and term.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

" This bridge was formerly surmounted, at either end, with a castellated gateway, but, like many of these accessories elsewhere, they have disappeared.
— from The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

He fired off his gun but twice, and each time he killed a Rhinoceros!
— from Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. by John Timbs

Several timber trees are essential to house building, canoe construction, and wood carving.
— from A Racial Study of the Fijians by Norman E. Gabel

We eat the fine meal and the "sowen" porridge, the horses eat the refuse from the "sowen" porridge, while we again eat the horses.
— from Mafeking: A Diary of a Siege by Frederick David Baillie

Staggering with it to the spot where the fat youth lay slumbering peacefully, Moussa Isa, in the sight of all men (who happened to be looking), dashed it upon his fez-adorned head, and established the hitherto disputable fact that the fat youth had brains.
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

If we are ever to have a registry of births, deaths (with the circumstances of each case), and marriages, some such staff will be essential to inspect the registry, and work up information from it.
— from Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Osborne Davis

She had apparently arranged everything to her satisfaction, and if Grenwitz should really die now, why ...
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

He was defeated in the last battle, it is true; but against eighteen thousand he had six thousand men.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz