Why, in the first place, his yacht is not a ship, but a bird, and he would beat any frigate three knots in every nine; and if he were to throw himself on the coast, why, is he not certain of finding friends everywhere?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

We think all other distinctions and ties will be slight and fugitive, this of caste or fashion, for example; yet come from year to year, and see how permanent that is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where, too, it has not the lease countenance from the law of the land.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The character of father, for example, implies a son, and this relation, involved in the ideas both of son and of father, implies further that a transmitted essence or human nature is shared by both.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

-ans n clearance, certification of freedom from encumbrance.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We know nothing of them.” Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, and gave them to the priest.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

There was one article, however, which, in the olden days, was of surpassing utility to the Trobriand natives, and which they could obtain only from Kitava, though it came originally from further East, from Murua (Woodlark Island).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

[177] Last year I cleared two dollars over the cost of feed from each of my layers, from the sale of eggs alone.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

Not only for delight, but for inspiration, warning and example, they were steeped from childhood onwards in an ocean of melodious discourse; their national epics were to them what the Bible was to the Puritans; and for every conjunction of fortune, for every issue of home or state, they found therein a text to prompt or reinforce their decision.
— from The Greek View of Life by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson

My own small circle of friends furnishes evidence tending to verify this conclusion.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

It has now donned the outwardly respectable look of middle age; it has laid itself out in streets; the gambling dens have disappeared, and the robbers have betaken themselves to the sale of the worst class of Japanese and Indian "curios," ostrich feathers from East Africa, and tobacco in all its forms.
— from A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

Stephen Powers ( c ) says the Karok (California) squaws tattoo in blue three narrow fern leaves perpendicularly on the chin, one falling from each corner of the mouth and one in the middle.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

In future, the general assembly was to consist of five freeholders, elected from each respective island within the government.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

The ninth is, the concourse of foreigners, for education, curiosity, or pleasure, or as to a general mart of trade.
— from Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734) by Jonathan Swift

Add one tablespoonful of melted butter, and two eggs, beaten light, then pour into a buttered pudding dish over two cupfuls of fresh fruit, either berries, sliced apples, bananas or peaches, and bake slowly half an hour.
— from Cookery for Little Girls by Olive Hyde Foster

The chief business of the then colonial merchants was the collection of furs for exportation.
— from The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger