No sooner had the emigrants landed on the barren coast described by Nathaniel Morton than it was their first care to constitute a society, by passing the following Act: "In the name of God.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It is to be INFERRED that there are countless dark bodies near the sun—such as we shall never see.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

carpenter does build new houses.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Numerous are the names which it bears, as it is continuously designated by new ones throughout the whole of its course.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

It puts the supposed case doubtfully, but not necessarily as improbable.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

And in the next generation the celebrated Dr. Baillie, nephew to these brothers, contributed largely to the improvement of pathology, and afforded an instance of the most active benevolence joined to a plainness of manner most becoming in a physician.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

Vous comprenez done bien notre douleur.
— from Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Henry Reeve

Very trying to the convalescent was the uncertain weather, with its obvious inability to know its own mind, with its dark fog one morning and its brisk wind in the afternoon, with its mid-day as bright as June and its sudden chill descending before nightfall.
— from Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews

SHOULDERS AND CHEST—Shoulders long and sloping well into the back, shoulder-blades flat, chest deep, but not broad.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

It proved to be a red cap, decorated with a paltry leaden medal of the Czar, a cap declared by Nikita to have been worn by the black-bearded individual.
— from The Shadow of the Czar by John R. Carling

"La vraie Comtesse de——" But now she was....
— from Round about Bar-le-Duc by Susanne R. (Susanne Rouviere) Day

O! that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
— from The Life of Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare