Children’s caprices are never the work of nature, but of bad discipline; they have either obeyed or given orders, and I have said again and again, they must do neither.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He did not lie awake all night thinking whether or not he was in love with Miss Sharp; the passion of love never interfered with the appetite or the slumber of Mr. Joseph Sedley; but he thought to himself how delightful it would be to hear such songs as those after Cutcherry—what a distinguee girl she was—how she could speak French better than the Governor-General's lady herself—and what a sensation she would make at the Calcutta balls.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Altaic Languages (also called Ural-Altaic and Turanian ), a family of languages occupying a portion of Northern and Eastern Europe, and nearly the whole of Northern and Central Asia, Page 129
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The days will be so long and dull when there are no parties to enliven them; and there are none this week, or next either, that I know of.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Shall I not give this world my heart, who find Within this world the glories of the mind— That wondrous mind that mounts from earth to God?— Nay, by the little footways it hath trod, And smiles to see, when thou art under sod, And by its very gaze across the abyss, Not this world, oh, not this!
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

Thus I wish to say, in regard to these mathematical matters, that they who merely study the masters and not the works of nature are the grandchildren, and not the children, of nature, the mistress of good masters.
— from Thoughts on Art and Life by da Vinci Leonardo

And, I would say about these mathematical studies that those who only study the authorities and not the works of nature are descendants but not sons of nature the mistress of all good authors.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

"He says I come aboard now, this way, or not at all," said Jarrow.
— from Isle o' Dreams by Frederick Ferdinand Moore

Not merely the tablelands of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, but also by far the larger part of Cape Colony and nearly the whole of Natal (excluding a small strip along the coast), attain this elevation.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

On that view the establishing of a new type was of necessity a very long and tedious business, involving many thousands of generations.
— from Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett

2. He had practiced climbing ever since he could remember, and now this was of no use; he had practiced marching, and now he should never march again.
— from McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

All night they worked on, not till six o’clock this morning was any possibility of communication opened.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge