“The severe cold experienced in Lincoln Island,” said Gideon Spilett, “may then perhaps be explained by the presence of floes or icebergs comparatively near to Lincoln Island.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

His chief end in life is still to get the most immediate pleasure.
— from Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter

I don't believe that that character exists in literature in so well-developed a condition as it exists in Orion's person.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Mark Twain

If all the energies of Africa, Spain, Sicily, and Macedonia should now be exerted in common against the common enemy; if Lower Italy should become the great rendezvous for the armies and fleets of the west, south, and east; he might hope successfully to finish what the vanguard under his leadership had so brilliantly begun.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

[Pg 172] you, could enjoy it— "Leave it so that you knew you could never live there again, never see a sun rise or a sun set over the dear old fields, and mountains, and river, you loved so well— "Never have the chance to stand by the graves of your fathers, and your children, that were a-sleepin' under the beautiful old trees that your grandfathers had set out— "Never see the dear old grounds they walked through, the old rooms full of the memories of their love, their joys, and their sorrows, and your loves, and hopes, and joys, and sadness?
— from Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley