If there is truly a mystery about Las Golondrinas, Aunt Martha will soon be on the trail of it with the Wayfarers.
— from Patsy Carroll Under Southern Skies by Josephine Chase

It is sown as leaven is sown, it grows and multiplies as leaven grows and multiplies, and it always reproduces itself….Contagia are living things, which demand certain elements of life, just as inexorably as trees, or wheat, or barley; and it is not difficult to see that a crop of a given parasite may so far use up a constituent existing in small quantities in the body, but essential in the growth of the parasite, as to render the body unfit for the production of a second crop.
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele

He would look at me and laugh, grin and make grimaces, and then dash off at Nigger and want to eat him up.
— from The Speech of Monkeys by R. L. (Richard Lynch) Garner

Doctors came, and ministers, and lawyers; generals and majors, and captains and subalterns of the Revolution, to till their grants and to found families.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The boroughs, which are notoriously small, are to be enlarged by copious annexations, but there will be no new boroughs, nor will the large towns, such as Manchester and Liverpool, get any more representatives than they have now.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various