This book, "BOY Scouts," will be sent anywhere for ten cents in stamps or coin by Minute Tapioca Co., Orange, Mass. {404} The Soft, Sure Silent Step of the Indian, the trapper and the guide is yours in the city as well as on the trail, if you will simply attach O'Sullivan's Heels of New Live Rubber to your ordinary shoes.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

He sat down beside me, and said in his smoothest voice as he opened two letters:— “The Szgany has given me these, of which, though I know not whence they come, I shall, of course, take care.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

We are told by historians that widespread famines occurred in those days every two or three years, and such was the condition of things that men actually had recourse to cannibalism, in secret, of course.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I knew it must be so: that so it always had been, and so it ever would be: and when I cowered in some obscure corner of a crowded room, and saw men whisper, and point, and turn their eyes towards me, I knew they were telling each other of the doomed madman; and I slunk away again to mope in solitude.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The punishment of counterfeiting the public securities, as well as the current coin, is submitted of course to that authority which is to secure the value of both.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

In certain of the London clubs, one or two New York ones, and the leading club in several other cities, it is not unusual for a boy's name to be put up for membership as soon as he is born.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Secondly, that although an English carrier or a short-faced tumbler differs immensely in certain characters from the rock-pigeon, yet that by comparing the several sub-breeds of these two races, more especially those brought from distant countries, we can make, between them and the rock-pigeon, an almost perfect series; so we can in some other cases, but not with all the breeds.
— 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

Thy life itself, is some such thing too; a mere exhalation of blood: and it also, apt to be changed into some other common thing.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Fortunately, however, all hands applied to Sam for information, and he was able to lead the conversation into some other channel whenever anything was said regarding the hold of the steamer.
— from The Life Savers: A story of the United States life-saving service by James Otis

St. Leger and Rupert laughed at Dolly, and with her; and Mrs. Copley, in spite of chewing the cud of mortification at Dolly's impracticableness, was beguiled into forgetting herself.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

At this critical moment, Armstrong, at the head of the leading section, came in sight of Coates, who having passed the bridge, and loosened the planks, lay, unapprehensive of danger, intending to destroy it as soon as his rear guard should cross the creek.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

This was the machine with a million times as many synapses as the human brain, the machine that remembered by cutting delicate notches in the rims of molecules (instead of kindergarten paper-punching or the Coney Island shimmying of columns of mercury).
— from Appointment In Tomorrow by Fritz Leiber

In England the proportion is about forty per cent.; in some other countries it is doubtless larger still.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

She considers it severe on Colenso.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

These seem to distribute the dissolved nutriment; hence the whole cavity is still often called a gastro-vascular cavity as serving both digestion and circulation.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

To be sure, there were objections to these arguments, but we thought we had answered them tersely and convincingly; if some one complained of the ignorance of voters, we answered, "Educate them."
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

In the center place a handful of shelled shrimps or lobster cut in slices, or crab meat.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler