Intellectual superiority was, of course, esteemed; but the word Chi , which was employed to denote intellectuality, meant wisdom in the first instance and placed knowledge only in a very subordinate place.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Then Acragas on the steep, once the breeder of noble horses, displays its massive walls in the distance; and with granted breeze I leave thee behind, palm-girt Selinus, and thread the difficult shoals and blind reefs of Lilybaeum.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

So home with her, and then I away (Creed being gone) to Captain Minors upon Tower Hill, and there, abating only some impertinence of his, I did inform myself well in things relating to the East Indys; both of the country and the disappointment the King met with the last voyage, by the knavery of the Portugall Viceroy, and the inconsiderablenesse of the place of Bombaim, [Bombay, which was transferred to the East India Company in 1669.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

One day, in my walk in the woods, I disturbed a whip-poor-will where she sat upon her eggs on the ground.
— from Riverby by John Burroughs

Congenital cataract is another not uncommon defect in man which is transmitted as a dominant (Fig. 25, p. 112 ) with occasional irregularities.
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer

After the hats came a burning of fish panniers defective in measure; while in the reign of Edward III.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

“Oh, you talk about your fascinating beauties, Of your dem-O-zells, your belles, But the littil dame I met, while in the city, She's par excellaws the queen of all the swells.
— from Penrod by Booth Tarkington

What does it matter what I think?”
— from Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart

"What does it matter what I think?
— from Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

If she be modest and her words be kind, Mark not her beauty, or her want of grace; The fairest woman, if deformed in mind Will in thy heart's affections find no place: Dazzling as Eden's beauties to the eye, In outward form: foul is her face within.
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

“What difference does it make what I think?”
— from The Tipster 1901, From "Wall Street Stories" by Edwin Lefevre

The heaviest damage in Maryland was in the vicinity of Williamsport, Washington county.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson