Vasya caught the messenger up in the air and printed a long, enthusiastic kiss on his lips, which were very much like Lizanka's.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It had not occurred to the Master that anyone reared in the North Jersey lake-country should not have at least enough knowledge of swimming to carry him a few yards.
— from Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune

Once they got a bag open it did not take them long to lay the train to the lantern, which Ken placed in a little excavation kicked out right under the front wall o
— from On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by T. C. (Thomas Charles) Bridges

138 Adapting Plato’s formula to modern ideas we might say: A literary education: knowledge of the world: mathematics: physical science.
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn

In respect to diet, as it will be chiefly of the vegetable and least expensive kinds of food, this will be a very moderate article in the œconomy of such an establishment.
— from Thoughts on General and Partial Inoculations Containing a translation of two treatises written when the author was at Petersburg, and published there, by Command of her Imperial Majesty, in the Russian Language by Thomas Dimsdale

In this warfare, which was equally just and honourable, Sophron was always foremost; his unequalled strength and courage made all the youth adopt him as their leader, and march with confidence under his command; and so successful were his expeditions, that he always returned loaded with the skins of vanquished enemies; and by his vigilance and intrepidity he at length either killed or drove away most of the beasts from which any danger was to be feared.
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

My facts were not equal to the demand upon them, nor are they equal to anything like exact knowledge of the intellectual pursuits of the many studious foreign youth of all ages and sexes whom one meets in Rome.
— from Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells

Did he think she hated every kind of goodness and loved every kind of evil?
— from The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes