And that most deeply to consider is 95 The beauty of his daughter; he himself Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman , But only Sycorax my dam and she; But she as far surpasseth Sycorax As great’st does least .
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

I can help a neighbor in need.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

How necessary all those days of feeling, full and deep, combined with the details of practical life were to me, and although I shall never date pleasant memories back to my earlier years, still if I had been too carefully handled and nursed I never could have enjoyed those days so much.
— from The Harvest of Years by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell

It is not considered good form to ask questions, even a member of the family coming home at night is not asked as to what success he has had in the chase.
— from Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter

They don't seem to have felt it worth while to come here, as neither ivory nor gold could be obtained if they did.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone

T HIS is the commonest Hawk, and nests in nearly all the ruins of temples and old buildings up and {26} down the land, and, as already stated, the young are often to be heard when they cannot be seen, calling with their incessant squeaky voice for their devoted parents.
— from Egyptian Birds For the most part seen in the Nile Valley by Charles Whymper