Five years ago, in the North American Review for January 18, and June 21, 1907, the writer hereof expressed the belief that an earlier date was feasible, thus: If three strong and able men, familiar with insular conditions, and still young enough to undertake the task 8 were told by a President of the United States, by authority of the Congress, “Go out there and set up a respectable native government in ten years, and then come away,” they could and would do it, and that government would be a success; and one of the greatest moral victories in the annals of free government would have been written by the gentlemen concerned upon the pages of their country’s history.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

2 [A; a] remove new growths, or pieces of tubers.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Priests in black, with silver-buckled shoes; line soldiers, slouchy and rakish; neat girls without hats bearing milliners' boxes, students with black portfolios and high hats, students with bérets and big canes, nervous, quick-stepping officers, symphonies in turquoise and silver; ponderous jangling cavalrymen all over dust, pastry cooks' boys skipping along with utter disregard for the safety of the basket balanced on the impish head, and then the lean outcast, the shambling Paris tramp, slouching with shoulders bent and little eye furtively scanning the ground for smokers' refuse;—all these moved in a steady stream across the fountain circle and out into the city by the Odeon, whose long arcades were now beginning to flicker with gas-jets.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

My companion put on a surly countenance, and replied “No great business, doctor—but however—” “Oh!
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Labour itself shall be all one as rest; not grievous, but joyous.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Property may legally be held, though it may not have passed into the possessor's hands by means of a contract; and its possession is an acquired right, not guaranteed by the Federal Constitution.]
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

This tendency to anger, vexation, and rage needs great care.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

—What a large amount of satisfaction all religious needs get out of Wagnerian music, though this is never acknowledged or even understood!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We need only look at the attempts of moralists in that favourite fashion, and we shall find at one time the special constitution of human nature (including, however, the idea of a rational nature generally), at one time perfection, at another happiness, here moral sense, there fear of God.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

This, it was felt, could not safely be left to the operation of mere chance; and one of the great advantages of colonial possessions was that they enabled the country which controlled them to deal in a scientific way with its surplus population, and to prevent the reproduction of unhealthy conditions in the new communities, which was apt to result if emigrants were allowed to drift aimlessly wheresoever chance took them, and received no guidance as to the proper modes of establishing themselves in their new homes.
— from The Expansion of Europe; The Culmination of Modern History by Ramsay Muir

" "I promise you I will not run any risk nor get myself into trouble.
— from The Outcaste by F. E. (Fanny Emily) Penny

I thought maybe I'd have a nice young chap who—who's building a railroad or something, fall in love with a real nice girl who's the daughter of a fat man who's a crook.
— from Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans

The Queen a very little plain old woman, and nothing more in her presence in any respect nor garb than any ordinary woman.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Fists and rocks now gave place to the rifle and repeated long-range shooting matches occurred between the factions.
— from Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies Authentic History of the World Renowned Vendettas of the Dark and Bloody Ground by Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg

You enter a hall hung with banners and armour; then climb a singular staircase, with carved figures of apes, dogs, monks, &c., and reach a long and rather narrow gallery, in which the dancing was going on.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

“But you’re all right now, George, with the new engine aboard,” condoled Nick.
— from Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys; Or, The Struggle for the Leadership by Louis Arundel

Four days later, on the same ground, the smack Inverlyon , commanded by Skipper Phillips, with an R. N. gunner, Ernest M. Jehan, sighted a submarine at 8.20 P.M. , steering right towards her in the twilight.
— from Submarine and Anti-submarine by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir

They all love it, perhaps because of George Washington; and most of them are really named George.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various

The abundance of quartz, forming distinct crystals or concretions, characterizes the granitic and other ancient rocks, now generally considered by geologists as of igneous origin; whereas that mineral is rarely exhibited in a separate form in recent lavas, although silica enters so largely into their composition.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir