It is a remarkable circumstance that neither Mahomet himself nor any of his immediate followers claim for him more than the humble title of prophet, or "God's holy prophet," while his later admirers and devout disciples have elevated him to the throne of heaven, and given him a seat among the Gods.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject, than when the youth Socrates listened to the old Protagoras, and asserted (if Plato's dialogue be grounded on a real conversation) the theory of utilitarianism against the popular morality of the so-called sophist.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

‘Come along, Rat!’ called the Mole.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The north pole is chiefly remarkable for no one having ever succeeded in reaching it, though there seems to have been a regular communication to it by post in the time of Pope, whose lines— “Speed the soft intercourse from zone to zone.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

General A. H. Terry held Fort Fisher, and a rumor came that he had taken the city of Wilmington; but this was premature.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The devoted wife with great pain and risk came the whole journey to Honolulu, and pleaded until the authorities were unable to resist her entreaty that she might go and live like a leper with her leper husband.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

A man who at Rome calls the Pope 'the dust of the earth,' and at Jerusalem tells the Jews that the 'Gemara is a lie'; who passes his days in disputation, and his nights in digging in the Talmud; to whom a floor of brick is a feather-bed and a box is a bolster; who makes or finds a friend alike in the persecutor of his former or of his present faith; who can conciliate a Pasha or confute a patriarch; who travels without a guide, speaks without an interpreter, can live without food, and pay without money, forgiving all the insults he meets with, and forgetting all the flattery he receives; who knows little of worldly conduct, and yet accommodates himself to all men without giving offence to any—such a man (and such and more is Wolff) must excite no ordinary degree of attention in a country and among a people whose monotony of manners and habits has remained undisturbed for centuries.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I mention this, because there is often a tendency to run after rare cases to the neglect of common ones; whilst, on the other hand, remarkable and instructive forms of disease are overlooked, simply because they are thought the curiosities rather than the elements of practice.
— from Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

"I must seem an awful rough cuss to her, though; all right for a cousin, but it's different when you come to the other proposition.
— from Red Saunders: His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips

If the devils who plan wars could only see the abysmal result of their handiwork! Give them one day in the trenches under shell-fire when their lives aren't worth a five minutes' purchase—or one day carrying back the wounded through this tortured country, or one day in a Red Cross train.
— from Carry On: Letters in War-Time by Coningsby Dawson

The “Northern Alberta Region” comprises the whole of the province of Alberta, north and east of the surveyed area.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers

CHAPTER IV With the stable boy's assurance that within ten minutes his horse would stand at the curb, Shelby locked his door against surprise, and, with an eye on the Temple driveway, made a rapid change to his riding clothes, which he was accustomed to keep by him for emergencies.
— from The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

I am also reasonably convinced that no harm can come to Thomas unless something unforeseen happens.
— from Death Points a Finger by Will Levinrew

A rough cart track winds for some way into these lonely hills, and we meet timber carts descending with loads of fir-trees, the mules stumbling and sliding on their haunches down the steep hillside—the heavy two-wheeled carts, with powerful brakes on, crashing and jolting behind them over boulders and tree-stumps.
— from With a Camera in Majorca by Margaret D'Este

"Do not ask it ... do not force me; ... or, at any rate, contrive to let me see her first, in a shop, or in the street, or any way....
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope