Now I have a great opinion of the yard cock on the plank; he is certainly of much more importance than the weather-cock who is placed so high and can't even creak, much less crow.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The Character of my Master is the very Reverse of that good and gentle Knight's.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

9 And so long as a man is reasoning he cannot surrender himself to that fine intoxication that comes of much motion in the open air, that begins in a sort of dazzle and sluggishness of the brain, and ends in a peace that passes comprehension.—Stevenson, Walking Tours .
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

Since, then, the chief care of mortal man is to preserve his life, how happy art thou, couldst thou but recognise thy blessings, who possessest even now what no one doubts to be dearer than life!
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

What were the differences in the characteristics of mass movements in the Klondike Rush, the Woman's Crusade, Methodism, and bolshevism?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Miss Elliot was to have the honour of calling on Mrs Musgrove in the course of the morning; and Anne walked off with Charles and Mary, to go and see her and Henrietta directly.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

The third class of megalithic monuments is the circular arrangement, such as we find at Avebury and Stonehenge.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

He shall carry on my mission in the north.
— from Riders of the Silences by Max Brand

“Look,” said my father, pointing to a decayed stump of a post almost buried amid dank moss, “this is all that remains of Tom Otter’s gibbet-tree.” I shuddered as he told how in other days he had heard the chains clanking in the wind, and he went on to relate that his father was among the crowd of citizens who, starting from Lincoln Castle one March morning in the year 1806, followed the murderer’s corpse until it was hanged in irons on a post thirty feet high on Saxilby Moor.
— from The Gypsy's Parson: his experiences and adventures by Hall, George, rector of Ruckland, Lincolnshire

As the horizon is often obscured by clouds or mist, making impossible the measurement of its angle with the heavenly bodies, I had a special type of spirit level, on which the horizon [Pg 45] was replaced by a bubble.
— from Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours With a Discussion of Aircraft in Commerce and Transportation by Brown, Arthur Whitten, Sir

In 1815 the compass in England pointed 24-½° W. of N. and in 1906 17° 45' W. Such a variation seems to mean a change of many miles in the location of the north magnetic pole.
— from Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington

[100] Benjamin P. Drake, M. D. , A graduate of Transylvania Medical Department in 1830, occupied the chair of Materia Medica in the last year of the school in 1857.
— from The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University by Robert Peter

But it is not difficult to see how under favouring conditions one must merge into the other.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

There would be no more chance of making money in that way.
— from Hard Pressed by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White