[Walks about the stage] I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing?
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I was far more willing to allow that this chimney of an extinct volcano was covered by lava of a kind refractory to heat—in fact a bad conductor—which did not allow the great increase of temperature to percolate through its sides.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

ingenious little machine is of great assistance in making straight running patterns and Irish lace braids, and is particularly useful for Russian lace and braid lace of all kinds.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The engine on exhibit burned liquid oxygen and kerosene to provide a thrust of 22,680 kilograms (50,000 pounds).
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

" And Agamemnon answered, "Sir, all that you have said is true, but this fellow must needs become our lord and master: he must be lord of all, king of all, and captain of all, and this shall hardly be.
— from The Iliad by Homer

When, however, He was questioned as to His mission and Royalty He spoke directly, as He had spoken before to Caiaphas, not, however, claiming to be King of the Jews, as His enemies asserted, but Lord of a kingdom which was not of this world; that is, not like earthly empires, whose bounds are mountains and seas, and whose thrones rest upon pillars of steel, the carnal weapons which first upbuild, and then support them.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St Luke by Henry Burton

They found gold, and jewels, and silks, and velvets in abundance, but, of provisions, which were of more importance to them, they found but little of any kind.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay

I allers did hold that a fat woman was bad enough, but a fat man ort p’intedly to be led out an’ killed.”
— from Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

Descent from the Summit Pond to the Ottawa by 32 locks, 283 feet; total lockage, 455 feet, depression of the Ottawa below Lake Ontario, at Kingston 141 feet; general course, north, north-east.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

Being on horseback, and unencumbered by luggage of any kind except blankets and a little hard bread, coffee and smoking-tobacco, which were all carried on our riding animals, we were sanguine of succeeding, for we traversed in one day fully the distance made in three by Lieutenant Williamson's party on foot.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1 by Philip Henry Sheridan

"I ask not gold, I ask not the broad lands of a king; I ask not to be fleeter than the breeze; But 'neath this steep to watch my sheep, feeding as one, and fling (Still clasping her ) my carol o'er the seas." MENALCAS.
— from Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus