"I crack for everybody," said the cracker.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I spotted Jidda, an important financial center for Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and the East Indies.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Some wished to reoccupy their position in the Mairie, but it was impossible for them to maintain any defence there, the Mairie being open and commanded from every side; they scaled the walls and scattered themselves about in the neighboring houses; others escaped by the narrow passage of the boulevard which led into the Rue Saint Jean; most of the combatants reached the opposite side of the boulevard, while those who had a cartridge left fired a last volley upon the troops from the height of the paving-stones.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Acquisition of a modicum of information in each branch of learning, or at least in a selected group, remains the principle by which the curriculum, from elementary school through college, is formed; the easier portions being assigned to the earlier years, the more difficult to the later.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

We can say that they must be carried far enough so that the individual will know what he is about and be able to guide his thinking; but in a given case just how far is that?
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Amazement and terror sat upon every countenance, for everybody suspected that the skeleton was Urso's.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

And these: “Credit jam digna pericula Caesar Fatis esse suis; tantusne evertere, dixit, Me superis labor est, parva quern puppe sedentem, Tam magno petiere mari;” [“Caesar now deemed these dangers worthy of his destiny: ‘What!’
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"'This fellow will scare the crows fast enough,' said the farmer.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In Madame Dubuc’s time the old woman felt that she was still the favorite; but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son’s happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Surrounding the oral sucker dorsally and laterally but not ventrally is a fold or “collar” bearing a row or rows of pointed spines which are continued round laterally on to the ventral corners, the number being constant for each species, the corner spines large or specialized, skin anteriorly scaled or spiny.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

So when the different couriers returned to Quannah and reported that the white men were coming from every side to surround the Comanches, and that part of these men were between Quannah's band and the camp where the Comanche women and children had been left, Quannah called his followers about him while the old Medicine Man stood beside the chief.
— from Star: The Story of an Indian Pony by Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker

Ye have gotten little in this life, it is true indeed: ye have then the more to crave, yea, ye have all to crave; for, except some tastings of the first fruits, and some kisses of His mouth whom your soul loveth, ye get no more.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

On Wednesday, the 6th February, a resolution was adopted, [110] on motion of Mr. Guthrie, of Kentucky, to refer the resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia, and all other kindred subjects, to a committee to consist of one commissioner from each State, to be selected by the respective State delegations; and to prevent delay they were instructed to report on or before the Friday following (the 8th), “what they may deem right, necessary, and proper to restore harmony and preserve the Union.”
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

He retreated a few steps, uttering loud, shrill cries, which were evidently intended as signals to his companions in the vicinity; and, as a result, troop upon troop of apes came from every side through the openings in the forest.
— from Captured by Apes; or, How Philip Garland Became King of Apeland by Harry Prentice

Ships that are built particularly for the transportation of horses can be adjusted with four decks over each other, including upper deck stables and two courses for exercise, so that a transport of from three to four thousand net tons capacity can carry over one thousand horses.
— from Operations Upon the Sea: A Study by Edelsheim, Franz, Freiherr von

"This chap, for example," said the Frenchman, touching himself on the breast and using the slang he must have picked up from American travellers, "is no Catholic,—not much!
— from A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells