{Observe the lesson of the divinity of Nature, ever checking the excess of one law, by an opposite, or seemingly opposite law—generally the other side of the same law.}
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Varlet or Squire carrying a Halberd, Fifteenth Century View of Alexandria, Sixteenth Century Village Feast, Sixteenth Century Village pillaged by Soldiers Villain, the Covetous and Avaricious Villain, the Egotistical and Envious Villain or Peasant, Fifteenth Century Villain receiving his Lord's Orders Vine, Culture of the Vintagers, The, Thirteenth Century Votive Altar of the Nautes Parisiens Water Torture, The Weight in Brass of the Fish-market at Mans, Sixteenth Century Whale Fishing William, Duke of Normandy, Eleventh Century Winegrower, The Wire-worker Wolves, how they may be caught with a Snare Woman under the Safeguard of Knighthood, Fifteenth Century Women of the Court, Sixth to Tenth Century Woodcock, Mode of catching a, Fourteenth Century Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

but she read it in bed and when I went in with her breakfast I found her dead and if the doctor had not been two doors off nobody else could have brought her to life again
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins

I examined leisurely and effectively the defenses of nearly every castle on the Rhine from the town of Bonn to your own city of Mayence.
— from The Sword Maker by Robert Barr

When I did make it, it was a solid decision, one not easily changed.
— from To Save Earth by Edward W. Ludwig

In my delineations of New England character I have aimed to copy from memory, and in no one instance, I believe, have I overdrawn the pictures; for among the New England mountains there lives many a "Grandma Nichols," a "Joel Slocum," or a "Nancy Scovandyke," while the wide world holds more than one ' Lena , with her high temper, extreme beauty, and rare combination of those qualities which make the female character so lovely.
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

How many men were drowned outright none either can exactly 52 tell.
— from The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme) by David Fallon

Before this time, it was considered the duty of nearly every citizen to be prepared to enter the military service, for the purpose either of defending his own country, or of attacking others.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Until that was disposed of, nothing else could win a glance.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis