It cannot be destroyed, because external enemies consolidate it.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

The actuality possessed by external experience cannot make up for its instability, nor the applicability of scientific principles for their hypothetical character.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

One must be extremely exact, clear, and perspicuous, in everything one says, otherwise, instead of entertaining, or informing others, one only tires and puzzles them.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Chile, Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Bolivia están en comunicación por el riel; pero ¡qué distancias tan enormes [28] !
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

—Volviendo a las frutas de mesa, sabrás que el melocotón, que llaman comunmente durazno, se produce bien en el centro del Brasil, en el sur del Paraguay,
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Or is it possible that not only individuals, but even entire communities, perish while the gods are propitious to them?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

El aliento del Ecuador enrojece las brumas del Océano.... 15 Los hielos sonríen por todas partes al recibir las caricias de la primera alborada .... Las estrellas se borran en el cárdeno firmamento.... La luna se oculta por el Septentrión.... ¡Está amaneciendo!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Bright, “Early English Church History,”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The questions were beginning to turn on a herring and a half for three halfpence, and a pound of lead and a pound of feathers, when the door of the waiting room was kicked open by a boot; as the boot entered everyone could see that its lace was coming undone—and in came Phyllis, very slowly and carefully.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

“None of your belles for me, nor your Beautiful Emilys either,” cried Marble, smashing the bottle over the schooner's nose; “So here goes three cheers again, for the 'Pretty Poll,' which was the name the craft was born to, and the name she shall bear, as long as Moses Marble sails her.”
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

But, ere Edith could know what he would say, their conference was rudely broken in upon.
— from Historic Girls: Stories Of Girls Who Have Influenced The History Of Their Times by Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter) Brooks

Contents : The great secret of Horse-Taming; How to throw a horse; the wild colts to halter; break a colt; hitching colt in stall; how to handle a colt's feet; breaking and driving colts to harness; objects of fear; to train a horse to stand when getting into a carriage; balking horses; pulling at halter; to break horses from jumping; pawing in stall and kicking in harness; the runaway horse; shoeing; corns; to teach a horse to appear intelligent; to teach a horse how to dance, waltz, kiss you, shake hands, etc., etc.; cure of sore breasts, big head, big leg, fullness of blood, catarrh; loose bowels, corns, cough, inflammation of eye, brittle feet, sand crack in foot, founder (a sure cure), galled back, grease, inflammation of kidneys, worms, itch, nasal, gleet, over-reaching, staggers, botts, etc., etc.; concluding with rules and regulations for the government of trotting and racing.
— from Balsamo, the Magician; or, The Memoirs of a Physician by Alexandre Dumas

And in the pages of his “History of New Hampshire” may be found a chapter contributed in part by the most remarkable man, in many respects, among all the older clergymen preacher, lawyer, physician, astronomer, botanist, entomologist, explorer, colonist, legislator in state and national governments, and only not seated on the bench of the Supreme Court of a Territory because he declined the office when Washington offered it to him.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Encyclopedia Brittannica , Eleventh Edition, Cambridge: At the University Press.
— from Wood and Forest by William Noyes

“Because everybody else calls you that.”
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

Self-judgment is one of the most valuable and healthful exercises of the Christian life, and therefore [89] any thing which produces it must be highly esteemed by every earnest Christian.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

The ox, the horse, the sheep, and even the comparatively useless dog and cat, as well as several species of poultry, are voluntarily transferred by every emigrant colony, and they soon multiply to numbers far exceeding those of the wild genera most nearly corresponding to them.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

DVNLQ XYTSI MZULX BAXQR ECVTD ETGOB CCUYF TTNXL UNEFS IVIJR ZHSBY LLTSI On the preliminary determination, we have the following count of letters out of a total of 385:
— from Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers by Parker Hitt

While Glyn had been earnestly engaged comforting Burton and before he started his letter, he had not observed the return of Singh with his pockets looking bulgy and his face wearing a good-tempered smile.
— from Glyn Severn's Schooldays by George Manville Fenn