On twelve of the thirteen black discs are placed numbered counters or grasshoppers.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

And all those that say for me a Pater Noster , with an Ave Maria , that God forgive me my sins, I make them partners, and grant them part of all the good pilgrimages and of all the good deeds that I have done, if any be to his pleasance; and not only of those, but of all that ever I shall do unto my life’s end.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The thirty Priests are torn out, are massacred about the Prison-Gate, one after one,—only the poor Abbe Sicard, whom one Moton a watchmaker, knowing him, heroically tried to save, and secrete in the Prison, escapes to tell;—and it is Night and Orcus, and Murder's snaky-sparkling head has risen in the murk!— From Sunday afternoon ( exclusive of intervals, and pauses not final ) till Thursday evening, there follow consecutively a Hundred Hours.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

There he saw dazzling camellias expanding themselves, with flowers which were giving forth their last colours and perfumes, not on bushes, but on trees, and within bamboo enclosures, cherry, plum, and apple trees, which the Japanese cultivate rather for their blossoms than their fruit, and which queerly-fashioned, grinning scarecrows protected from the sparrows, pigeons, ravens, and other voracious birds.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent; nor does Nature adorn the human ruin with blossoms of new beauty, that have their roots and proper nutriment only in the chinks and crevices of decay, as she sows wall-flowers over the ruined fortress of Ticonderoga.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As previously noted, the English began to cultivate coffee in India in 1840.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

This did my business; and I had to confess the whole, laying my fault to the account of love, and promising not to do such a thing again.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Fury started into her eyes, and passion inflamed every feature, as she answered, “Pardi, no-you may take care of yourself, if you please; but as to me, I promise you I sha’n’t trust myself with no such person.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

“I am now awaiting,” continued he, looking toward the door of our apartment—“I am now awaiting a person who, although perhaps not the perpetrator of these butcheries, must have been in some measure implicated in their perpetration.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Pahaigúa (ipahaígù) ang paglútù nga alas dúsi andam na ang tanan, Time your cooking so that everything will be ready at twelve.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There is a hint of crusading fervour in Basil (against drunken nurses and hospital routine), but the motif is not strong enough to class the book as a propaganda novel.
— from Excursions in Victorian Bibliography by Michael Sadleir

Public opinion and popular narratives are, however, fashioned by sentiment rather than founded on evidence; accordingly, Britain's prestige suffered from this event.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Without undue flattery to Master Trafford, we may conclusively state that we deem his poem a great deal better than most of the vers libre effusions which so many of his elders are perpetrating nowadays!
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

For ages, I thought, [Pg 304] that beauteous flower had been growing in that wild and unvisited spot, every season "filling the air around with beauty," and had in all probability never met a single human gaze before.
— from The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse

It would be a problem not less curious than complicated and difficult to study the system of this immense stream of water, upon which perhaps depends principally the organic life upon the planet, if organic life is found there.
— from The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

You know, this was a pretty nasty business."
— from Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper

In the first place, the tu quoque argument proves nothing and has no weight.
— from Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge

Hence miracles, the divinity of Christ, and mysteries of any kind, must be eliminated; even the notion of a personal God will have to be changed to a pantheistic notion: “ After the great revolution in our cosmic theories we can no longer think of God, the eternal holy Will that we revere as First Cause of all things, as the ‘ first mover ’ throning outside and above the universe, as Aristotle and Thomas did ” ( Paulsen ).
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

Tacoma, under its ermine, is a crushed volcanic dome, or an ancient volcano fallen in, and perhaps not yet wholly lifeless.
— from The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' by John H. (John Harvey) Williams

But you can see that it is of no use to make such a proposition now.
— from Missy: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris