A Frenchman can live in New Guinea or in Lapland, but a negro cannot live in Tornea nor a Samoyed in Benin.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This story, however, which rests solely on the authority of Abulfaragius, a writer who lived six centuries later, is now generally discredited.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

cōnsul leō imāgō nōmen Gen. cōnsulis leōnis imāginis nōminis Dat.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

cōnsulēs leōnēs imāginēs nōmina Gen. cōnsulum leōnum imāginum nōminum Dat. cōnsulibus leōnibus imāginibus nōminibus Acc.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

But, so far as that goes, Mrs. Plowden, Paris, where we have chiefly lived, is no great improvement, that I know, upon England.
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Of course, Cousin Lyman is not going.”
— from The Travelling Thirds by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

The early pioneers of the great Northwest civilization lie in neglected graves.
— from The Log School-House on the Columbia by Hezekiah Butterworth

But the fact that we are tired of conventional laxity is no good reason for rushing to the other extreme of conventional and hampering austerity.
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

Californy law is no good, anyhow.
— from The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the Fifties by Samuel Adams Drake

Challemel Lacour is not given, as you know, to talk about general diplomatic policy, but others do not hesitate to let us understand that while they are civil about small matters, they are only biding their time till an opportunity comes of opposing us in effect with great ones.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron