Private property, which is the economic basis of independence, shall be developed freely and be respected by us.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

What do you say, when our county member, growing hot, at cheese and salad time, about the spread of democracy in England, burst out as follows: “If we once lose our ancient safeguards, Mr. Blake, I beg to ask you, what have we got left?”—what do you say to Mr. Franklin answering, from the Italian point of view: “We have got three things left, sir—Love, Music, and Salad”?
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

My father, who generally look’d upon every thing in a light very different from all mankind, would, after all, never allow this to be an original.——He considered rather Ernulphus ’s anathema, as an institute of swearing, in which, as he suspected, upon the decline of swearing in some milder pontificate, Ernulphus, by order of the succeeding pope, had with great learning and diligence collected together all the laws of it;—for the same reason that Justinian, in the decline of the empire, had ordered his chancellor Tribonian to collect the Roman or civil laws all together into one code or digest——lest, through the rust of time——and the fatality of all things committed to oral tradition—they should be lost to the world for ever.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

It exists because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from people in all walks of life.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

In addition to these there were Agrianes and Persians, who were either bowmen or slingers, to the number of two thousand.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

To this the duchess said, "Sancho, my friend, mind what you are saying; it seems you could not have seen the earth, but only the men walking on it; for if the earth looked to you like a grain of mustard seed, and each man like a hazel nut, one man alone would have covered the whole earth."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Yet a time comes when reasonable men find it hard to understand how any one in his senses can suppose that by eating bread or drinking wine he consumes the body or blood of a deity.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The waggon and its load rolled no longer on the horizontal division between clearness and opacity, but were imbedded in an elastic body of a monotonous pallor throughout.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Say not a word to anyone, but try to speak with me either before or after supper.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This beautiful animal is also known as the joint-snake, and both names have reference to the exceeding brittleness of its long tail, which often breaks in many pieces in the hands of the enemy trying to capture the lizard.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Facing Island, the eastern boundary of Port Curtis, facing the sea.
— from The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest, Sir

It was used, not only to confirm elections, but often, though not always, to settle questions of Church policy.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

And they told him, saying, John the Baptist: and others, Elijah: but others, One of the prophets.
— from A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by A. T. Robertson

In the summer of 1837, a small party of but five or six Shawnees fell in with a large band of Yutas near the eastern borders of the Rocky Mountains, south of Arkansas river.
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg

Richard threw off his despair and gave society some excellent books of which it took no notice.
— from Years of Plenty by Ivor John Carnegie Brown

We have an insight into the medical history of the city in a contract made by the first surgeon, Etienne Bouchard, on March 30, 1655, with twenty-six families to treat them regularly for a certain sum.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

[37] It eventually became one of the most important patents to be contributed to the “Sewing-Machine Combination,” a patent pool, which is discussed in more detail on pages 41 and 42.
— from The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Grace Rogers Cooper

As by one consent, every beast of the forest seemed to arise from its den, and utter its wild nocturnal cry.
— from The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss