The road which was cut down Mount York was a work of considerable labour and magnitude, and reflected the highest credit upon all employed in it.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley

“I can look after myself all right, thanks.”
— from Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Classification, logic, and mathematics all result, then, from the mere play of the mind comparing its conceptions, no matter whence the latter may have come.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

But nowadays we have other forms, as we are not content with 74 the convex combined with the concave lens, and modern astronomy requires the eyepiece to be of more elaborate construction than those adopted by Galileo and the first users of telescopes, although this form is still used for opera-glasses and in cases where small power only is required.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir