—En el Brasil no es raro ver
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Hell, in my book, will not occupy five pages of MS I judge—it will be only covert hints, I suppose, and quickly dropped, I may end by not even referring to it.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Mark Twain

But although these achievements were great and had been equaled by no earlier Roman, one might ascribe them both to good fortune and to his fellow campaigners.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Thackeray, in "The Virginians," gives the Hudson the verdict of beauty; and George William Curtis, [page 12] comparing the Hudson with the rivers of the Old World, has gracefully said: "The Danube has in part glimpses of such grandeur, the Elbe has sometimes such delicately penciled effects, but no European river is so lordly in its bearing, none flows in such state to the sea."
— from The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

While he waited for the fifth time before a certain expensive but not exclusive roadhouse, with the bouncing giggles of girls inside spoiling the spring night, he studied the background as once he had studied his father's woodshed.
— from The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis

‘There was then, in this country, no popular representation, no emancipated burghs, no effective rival of the established church, no independent press, no free public meetings, and no better trial by jury, even in political cases (except high treason), than what was consistent with the circumstances, that the jurors were not sent into court under any impartial rule, and that, when in court, those who were to try the case were named by the presiding judge.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Nearly twenty years of authorship have shown me much and sad experience; but nothing ever revealed to me the low estimation in which authors are held by publishers, so much as a simple fact, mentioned some time ago, in Chambers' Journal, but which was witnessed by myself.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Howitt

“How long, thinkest thou, O Serenus, will evil prevail on the earth?” “Behold no evil ruleth the earth, for that which so appeareth is but the early, imperfect, and unripened Good.
— from Victor Serenus: A Story of the Pauline Era by Henry Wood