To any one who knew the relative popularity of Cameron and Godkin, the idea of a popular vote between them seemed excessively humorous; yet the popular vote in the end did decide against Cameron, for Godkin.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Dis one’s powerful drunk, en de duke ain’ much better.”
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

La tecnología tendrá que evolucionar para apoyar un proceso que permita respetar el derecho de autor.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Tom hesitated, looked distressed, and was about to stammer out something at hazard, when Lord St. John took the word and answered for him with the easy grace of a courtier accustomed to encounter delicate difficulties and to be ready for them— “He hath indeed, madam, and she did greatly hearten him, as touching his majesty’s condition; is it not so, your highness?”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

[The English ‘hide’: “the amount considered adequate for the support of one free family with its dependants: at an early date defined as being as much land as could be tilled by one plough in a year,” has no connexion with ‘hide,’ ‘a skin.’
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Now, of course, it's a fight between sound business and the destructive element, and we got to lick the stuffin's out of 'em when they challenge us, but doggoned if I see why we can't fight like gentlemen and not go calling 'em dirty dogs and saying they ought to be shot down.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

“Hundreds of emigrants die daily; and if Stephen Ayres had not providentally come among us, not a soul would have been alive at this moment in Montreal.”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Spring winds to-day are blowing in wild eddies, driving dust and dead leaves away, and with them your lessons are all lost.
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

"Blew out a plug!" exclaimed Dr. Domb and the Bishop, deeply interested at once.
— from Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock

Here we pass a projecting buttress hose grooved and rounded surface tells a plain story of the time when the Valley, now filled with sunshine, was filled with ice, when the grand old Yosemite Glacier, flowing river-like from its distant fountains, swept through it, crushing, grinding, wearing its way ever deeper, developing and fashioning these sublime rocks.
— from The Yosemite by John Muir

M. Catlin, indépendamment de son mérite d’écrivain et de dessinateur, aura celui d’avoir donné
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

The black fellows tightly grasped the moonoons and drove them with force into the two emu they had picked One emu dropped dead at once.
— from Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker

The works with which I am acquainted that treat on this subject, are the following:—M. Schoockii Tractatus de Butyro: accessit ejusdem Diatriba de aversatione Casei.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

Baptism , the Christian rite of initiation into the membership of the Church, identified by St. Paul (Rom. vi. 4) with that No to the world which precedes or rather accompanies Yea to God, but a misunderstanding of the nature of which has led to endless diversity, debate, and alienation all over the Churches of Christendom.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

We had seen a good deal of each other in my early Dresden days, and he soon felt at home in my house, where my wife always gave him a warm welcome.
— from My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner

Below the last window is the long low book-case mentioned before; it is only about three feet high, and is enamelled electric turquoise like the rest of the room, and each shelf is edged with a frill of yellow printed linen; the top of these shelves makes an excellent rest for photographs, {63} china, and plants, and is thus finished; had the book-case not been placed there I cannot think what I should have done, as no one can sit in that part of the room, which really is a tiny ante-room, or entrance merely, to what is not at the best a large room, but which would have been all the better had the eccentric designer done away with his arch and put all the space at his command into the room itself; but he did not, and so I have made the best use I can of the room as it is, though I really believe in so doing I have shortened my life perceptibly!
— from Nooks and Corners being the companion volume to 'From Kitchen to Garret' by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton