I'll give but notice you are dead, and send him Some bloody sign of it, for 'tis commanded I should do so.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

No, if our country has ever to be free, it will not be through vice and crime, it will not be so by corrupting its sons, deceiving some and bribing others, no!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Nevertheless, I will here consider in some detail several of the cases advanced by Mr. Mivart, selecting those which are the most illustrative, as want of space prevents me from considering all.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

CONTENTS PAGE Preface iii-iv CHAPTER I History of Scurvy 1 ( a ) Outbreaks on Land ; ( b ) Outbreaks at Sea ; ( c ) Infantile Scurvy ; ( d ) Scurvy in the World War CHAPTER II Pathogenesis and Etiology 23 Pathogenesis: Theories; Potassium Deficiency; Acidosis; Toxic; Bacterial; Vitamine (Accessory Factor) Etiology: Breast-Fed Infants 35 Artificially Fed Infants: Pasteurized Milk; Boiled and Sterilized Milk; Dried Milk; Condensed Milk; Proprietary Foods (Effect of Alkalization) 40 Age, Season and Climate; Economic Status; Psychic Element; Predisposition; Effect of Other Food Constituents; Exciting Factors CHAPTER III The Antiscorbutic Vitamine 62 Characteristics: Relation To Heat, Drying, Aging, Ultra-Violet Rays, Shaking 65 Mode of Action —( a ) Direct: As a Nutriment; Antitoxin; Catalyzer ;
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

How much she won't know—nor can't know, I hope; 'cause if she did, she'd know other things—that I don't want her to know.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

— N. credulity, credulousness &c. adj.; cullibility|, gullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry &c. (obstinacy) 606; hyperorthodoxy &c. 984[obs3]; misjudgment &c. 481.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Impossible feat as it was for Thorr—who got only one paw of the seeming cat off the ground—in that glassless and gasless era, invention has accomplished much in that direction; but the black Cat is still domiciled securely among idols of the mental cave.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

One day I came in quoting “Io son, cantava, io son dolce Sirena, Che
— from Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells

Before serving add three thin slices of smoked beef tongue cut in small diamond shapes, three chopped hard-boiled eggs, and a truffle cut in small squares.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

“For genuine crust, it surely does!” spoke up Harper.
— from Frank Merriwell's New Comedian; Or, The Rise of a Star by Burt L. Standish

[pg 134] "wine of the country," is so distressingly similar in every neighborhood.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

Waving Jim to one chair, I sank down shakily into another.
— from Star, Bright by Mark Clifton

There a council of peers was summoned, and then it appeared that though Warwick's faction had probably not accomplished all they had intended, they bound the king to terms which, while they neutralised the hopes of Clarence in some degree, still were calculated to add to the greatness of the house of Neville.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

In an excursion to Lake Superior, some years since, I satisfied myself that the position and outline of that particular lake had their immediate cause in several distinct systems of dikes which intersect its northern shore, and have probably cut up the whole tract of rock over the space now filled by that wonderful sheet of fresh water in such a way as to destroy its continuity, to produce depressions, and gradually create the excavation which now forms the basin of the lake.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Inside of it a chick is slowly developing, slowly evolving.
— from Frigid Fracas by Mack Reynolds