At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and Germans are now among the least; but here and there at very wide intervals of latitude and longitude, you still occasionally meet with their flag in the Pacific.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Other outstanding features included the description of how the association planned to conduct a research into the cost of doing a wholesale coffee-roasting business, the investigation to be made by Columbia University; addresses attacking the meat packers' invasion of the coffee roasting and distributing field; a paper, and discussions, on shorter terms and uniform discounts; the recommendation to employ a traveling field secretary who would hold periodical meetings with local branches; and the condemnation of guaranteeing prices against decline and giving advance notices of changes of prices.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Now he that governed the elephant was but a private man; and had he proved to be Antiochus, Eleazar had performed nothing more by this bold stroke than that it might appear he chose to die, when he had the bare hope of thereby doing a glorious action; nay, this disappointment proved an omen to his brother [Judas] how the entire battle would end.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

That speech was full of dignity and greatness as Napoleon understood it.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I always wanted you to jine and take your share, and die a gentleman, and now, my cock, you've got to.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

I resolved to wait, to see if they did not separate; and therefore, to make sure of them, I drew my ambuscade nearer, and ordered Friday and the captain to creep upon their hands and feet, as close to the ground as they could, that they might not be discovered, and get as near them as they could possibly before they offered to fire.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

If it be asked to what length the principle admits of being carried, or how many votes might be accorded to an individual on the ground of superior qualifications, I answer, that this is not in itself very material, provided the distinctions and gradations are not made arbitrarily, but are such as can be understood and accepted by the general conscience and understanding.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Except the grey eagle and an occasional far-seen bear grubbing and rooting on the hillside; a vision of a furious painted leopard met at dawn in a still valley devouring a goat; and now and again a bright-coloured bird, they were alone with the winds and the grass singing under the wind.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

I receive fresh intelligence that Deptford and Greenwich are now afresh exceedingly afflicted with the sickness more than ever. 8th.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

It had been in my mind from the first to ask them to dine at Glenarm, and now I wished to see this girl, to test, weigh, study her, as soon as possible after her meeting with Gillespie.
— from Rosalind at Red Gate by Meredith Nicholson

Since hitherto all States-General have done as good as nothing, why should these do more?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“Oh! ancient Homer, dear and good and noble, I am minded now and again to leave all and translate thee—I, who have never a word of Greek—so empty and so dismal are the versions men make of thee, in verse or in prose.”
— from Essays in Little by Andrew Lang

"'But dey allers gives a nigga his food and clothes, Mars' Cap'n— allers .
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

You know she was on his yacht a whole month last summer—the bishop's sister was with her— highly scandalised all the time by the drinking and gaiety, and now every one's looking for the engagement to be announced.
— from The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson

Except the gray eagle and an occasional far-seen bear grubbing and rooting on the hillside, the vision of a furious painted leopard met at dawn in a still valley devouring a goat, and now and again a [303] bright-coloured bird, they were alone with the winds and the grass singing under the wind.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Perversity haunts the garden, and the dock always grows as near as possible to some plant that you value.
— from The New Gulliver, and Other Stories by Barry Pain

Then we sailed off further and further, till we couldn’t see Jim at all any more, and then that great figger was at its noblest, a-gazing out over the Nile Valley so still and solemn and lonesome, and all the little shabby huts and things that was scattered about it clean disappeared and gone, and nothing around it now but a soft wide spread of yaller velvet, which was the sand.
— from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain

Desires are generous, and noble, To set thee up, that glorious insolent thing, That makes Mankind such Slaves, almighty Curtezan! —Come, to thy private Chamber let us haste, The sacred Temple of the God of Love; And consecrate thy Power.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn