I think it would be tragic , Marilla, not to know what Mayflowers are like and not to miss them.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

In answer to the third question, he says that the United States is more than twenty times as large as Norway, that the greater part of the country is not yet even under cultivation, and that there is room for a population more than a hundred times as great as that of Norway.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

And when you want to keep a shield or a lyre, and not to use them, you would say that justice is useful; but when you want to use them, then the art of the soldier or of the musician?
— from The Republic by Plato

But I was not to be down-hearted, he told me, for it was as likely as not that the next stage might set us right again.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The garment which occupys the waist, and from thence as low as nearly to the knee before and the ham, behind, cannot properly be denominated a petticoat, in the common acceptation of that term; it is a tissue of white cedar bark, bruised or broken into small shreds, which are interwoven in the middle by means of several cords of the same materials, which serve as well for a girdle as to hold in place the shreds of bark which form the tissue, and which shreds confined in the middle hang with their ends pendulous from the waist, the whole being of sufficient thickness when the female stands erect to conceal those parts usually covered from formiliar view, but when she stoops or places herself in many other attitudes, this battery of Venus is not altogether impervious to the inquisitive and penetrating eye of the amorite.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When any evil falls upon the spirit, thou, O Wise One, givest temporal possessions and a good disposition; but him whose promises are lies, and not truth, thou punishest.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Such for instance are the concentration of the national force to one object; the abandonment of the subsidizing policy, so far at least as neither to goad nor bribe the continental courts into war, till the convictions of their subjects had rendered it a war of their own seeking; and above all, in their manly and generous reliance on the good sense of the English people, and on that loyalty which is linked to the very [40] heart of the nation by the system of credit and the interdependence of property.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No right nor reason can they show; 'Tis but because their lands and laws are not the same.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

And so The divers spots to divers parts and limbs Are noxious; 'tis a variable air
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

But altitude and latitude are not the only factors which have been instrumental in determining the plants found in any particular locality.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

It had been a market day in the Turkish quarter, and late at night the farmers would be returning to their homes.
— from The Secret Witness by George Gibbs

Thereupon Colas went after the said personage, whom he found in a little alley near the courtyard behind the house; and the said personage, having suddenly perceived Colas, endeavoured to strike him on the body with his weapon; but Colas withstood him and gave him a few blows,(5) for which reason he cried out ‘Help!
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

But the Hebrew word for hare is ARNaBeT. Now, this is compounded of the two words AUR, light , and NaBaT, to behold , and therefore the word which in the Egyptian denoted initiation , in the Hebrew signified to behold the light .
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Draw full-page map and locate and number the stations of the Exodus journey from Rameses to Sinai.
— from A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible Second Edition by Frank Nelson Palmer

You don't know Felicity; she'd be just as likely as not to tell Mary herself.”
— from The Nest Builder: A Novel by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

Cecil could see two before different house-doors as she sat behind her muslin curtains, looking as fresh and healthful as ever, and scarcely more matronly, except that her air of self-assertion had become more easy and less aggressive now that she was undisputed mistress of the house in London.
— from The Three Brides by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The worst of it is," he added, with a frown, "if there really is some conspiracy at the bottom of the discontent, it is as likely as not the devils who are working it, may take advantage of this--I don't mean of this death-- that goes without saying.
— from The Hosts of the Lord by Flora Annie Webster Steel

There is nothing in the texts which seems to hint at the celebration of any rites in the dark parts of the temple by artificial light, and no trace of the discoloration caused by smoke has been found upon the walls.
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez