Whenever possible, the question "why?" should not only educe the cause as cause, but rather a certain kind of cause—a comforting, liberating and reassuring cause.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Doctor Danvers, save by rumor and conjecture, knew nothing of Marston and his abandoned companion.
— from The Evil Guest by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

He did not think such things were done in Batley; for his part, he used none but best rags, and could keep two factories always going.
— from A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

"Any bodies recovered?" asked Colonel Kirby, leaning from the seat of his high dogcart to speak to the English fireman who stood sentry over the water-plug.
— from The Winds of the World by Talbot Mundy

The Bretons, it will be remembered, are close kinsmen of the Welsh.
— from Musical Instruments by Carl Engel

Off this baylet are three rocky islets, disposed in a triangle, slabs collected by a broken reef, and collectively known as Zunga Nuapozo; the clear-way is between them and the southern bank, which is partly provided with a backwater; the northern three quarters of the bed show something like a scour and a rapid.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It was simple of manipulation, but required a certain knack of dexterity to produce even well-twisted thread.
— from Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

In the legend of the Roman twins, Romulus kills his brother Remus as Cain killed Abel.
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

"Now that I am, can I kill a man; run a bayonet through his body; right through, so that the point, blood red and cruelly keen, comes out at the back?
— from The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill