Woodberry's Appreciation of Literature (Baker & Taylor Co.); Gates's Studies in Appreciation (Macmillan); Bates's Talks on the Study of Literature (Houghton, Mifflin); Worsfold's On the Exercise of Judgment in Literature (Dent); Harrison's The Choice of Books (Macmillan); Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies, Part I; Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

( b ) M. Renan sees in the presence of emissaries from Jerusalem in the Galatian Churches an indication that Galatia proper is not meant.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Quando fuor giunti, assai con l'occhio bieco mi rimiraron sanza far parola; poi si volsero in se', e dicean seco: <— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Translated from the Second French edition, by Mrs. Rachael Szold Jastrow , of Madison, Wis. With an Introduction by Roscoe Pound , Professor of Law in Harvard University.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

And when thy vessel o'er the foaming sound Is proud past storied coasts to blithely bound, At once the point of beauty may restore Smiles to thy lip, and smoothe thy brow once more.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The loss during incubation cannot be measured readily since it is almost certainly sharply increased by the disturbance entailed in observing nests.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

Between the date of his signal defeat and the 11th of November, the enemy's scattered forces had sufficiently reorganized to permit his again making a reconnoissance in the valley as far north as Cedar Creek, my army having meanwhile withdrawn to Kernstown, where it had been finally decided that a defensive line should be held to enable me to detach troops to General Grant, and where, by reconstructing the Winchester and Potomac railroad from Stephenson's depot to Harper's Ferry, my command might be more readily, supplied.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete by Philip Henry Sheridan

"But, Mr. Rogers, sir, either that there ship is a Dutchman or else I be."
— from The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Survey, financed by Mrs. Russell Sage, and equipped with some of the ablest and fairest minded social workers in America, has called sharp attention to her shortcomings.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

You’ll be making reparation, Samuel.
— from Annie Laurie and Azalea by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

And thence came their arms, the winged dragon spitting flames, and the fierce, glowing motto, with its play on the name "/Bocca sera, Alma rossa/" (black mouth, red soul), the mouth darkened by a roar, the soul flaming like a brazier of faith and love.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1 by Émile Zola

From each of the bellows-boards an iron ring descends through a hole in its supporting plank, and a wooden peg is driven into the ring, so that the bellows-board may remain stationary, as I stated above.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

‘It must be Mr Richard Swiveller.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The Indians are being murdered, ravished, sold for slaves, basted with burning fat; and grand white men come like avenging angels, and in one day sweep their tyrants out of the land, restore them to liberty and life, and say to them, ‘A great Queen far across the seas has sent us to do this.
— from Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley

In evidence of the latter, I put before my readers some letters written to his parents in his maturer years, which will amply justify what I say of him.
— from John Leech, His Life and Work, Vol. 2 [of 2] by William Powell Frith