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— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

This note is, I confess, barely conjectural; and since Josephus never tells us when his own copy, taken out of the temple, had such additions, or when any ancient notes supplied them; or indeed when they are derived from Jewish, and when from Gentile antiquity,—we can go no further than bare conjectures in such cases; only the notions of Jews were generally so different from those of Gentiles, that we may sometimes make no improbable conjectures to which sort such additions belong.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

John T. Morgan Introductory Chapter Chapter I: Exterior Form Of North America Chapter Summary Chapter II: Origin Of The Anglo-Americans—Part I Chapter Summary Chapter II: Origin Of The Anglo-Americans—Part II Chapter III: Social Conditions Of The Anglo-Americans Chapter Summary Chapter
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

With regard to the bearing of memory-illusions on criminal cases I shall cite only one possible instance.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

sleepest thou, friend Sancho?” “How can I sleep, curses on it!”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

111 Their prowess was always conspicuous in single combats, or in the foremost ranks; and both parties confessed that in the siege of Rome, the guards of Belisarius had alone vanquished the Barbarian host.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Besides, after some thought upon this affair, I considered that if this land was the Spanish coast, I should certainly, one time or other, see some vessel pass or repass one way or other; but if not, then it was the savage coast between the Spanish country and Brazils, where are found the worst of savages; for they are cannibals or men-eaters, and fail not to murder and devour all the human bodies that fall into their hands.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Their prowess was always conspicuous in single combats, or in the foremost ranks; and both parties confessed that in the siege of Rome, the guards of Belisarius had alone vanquished the Barbarian host.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

After a vociferous consultation, which was, at times, deafened by bursts of savage joy, they again separated, filling the air with the name of a foe, whose body, Heywood could collect from their expressions, they hoped to find concealed in some crevice of the island.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

"How can I sleep, curses on it!"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But that was forgotten in the change I saw come over the poor fellow’s face.
— from The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn

He knew, or ought to have known, that the same process of combustion is surely carried on, whether in the ground or in the crematory, and that if dissolution of the body imperiled the true doctrine of resurrection, then that doctrine was long ago hopelessly lost.
— from The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

When her curiosity could no longer contain itself she called out: “W’ats dat you’se doin’ dah, you li’le gal?
— from At Fault by Kate Chopin

“Captain Carter is so certain of his position that he boasted to me not six hours ago that he intends to seize all the treasure and then turn the natives against me.”
— from The Boy Scout Explorers at Treasure Mountain by Don Palmer

Colonel Seth Pennington was among those who, skeptical at first and inclined to ridicule the project into an early grave, eventually found himself swayed by the publicity and gradually coerced into serious consideration of the results attendant upon the building of the road.
— from The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

"Very often there is nothing that they can do," said the captain, "except to let out more cable, cautiously, so as to give the anchor a better chance to catch in some cleft or crevice in the bottom.
— from Rollo on the Atlantic by Jacob Abbott

Finally P.’s chair is slowly carried on to the seance-table.
— from Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by J. (Joseph) Maxwell