The literal Cherokee translation of “Long-hair” is Gitlû′-gûnăhi′ta , but it is not certain that the English name is a correct rendering of the Indian form.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

When I told my pupils expressly, “Now I am cheating,” I was able to make with safety a false coup, a false deal, etc.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

A man of bad morals having made a good proposal in the Spartan Council, the Ephors neglected it, and caused the same proposal to be made by a virtuous citizen.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Now I, Socrates, am very well inclined towards you, and my feeling may be compared with that of Zethus towards Amphion, in the play of Euripides, whom I was mentioning just now: for I am disposed to say to you much what Zethus said to his brother, that you, Socrates, are careless about the things of which you ought to be careful; and that you 'Who have a soul so noble, are remarkable for a puerile exterior; Neither in a court of justice could you state a case, or give any reason or proof, Or offer valiant counsel on another's behalf.'
— from Gorgias by Plato

Towards the evening several counts arrived, for in Vicenza every nobleman is a count.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

An elderly negro, in a clout like an infant's, [pg 183] and with a pepper and salt head, and a kind of attorney air, now approached Captain Delano.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Even now I am certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious resort.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The famous theorem of Spinoza, 'Omnis determinatio est negatio,' is already contained in the 'negation is relation' of Plato's Sophist.
— from Meno by Plato

Of the audience he says “few among them would have escaped notice in a crowd for they were exceptionally alert, keen, and intelligent in appearance.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Since the only way the routing information can be passed around is across the network and the propagation time is non-trivial, the view of the network at each node is a correct historical view of the network at varying times in the past.
— from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet by Ed Krol

"It is a lie, my general!" exclaimed Noyez, in a choking voice, as he strode forward, only to be seized and thrust back.
— from Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Or, Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

This matter has gone quite far enough now, in all conscience, and must be stopped, if half the world become offended.
— from Home Lights and Shadows by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

His face was expressive enough now in all conscience.
— from The Return of the Prodigal by May Sinclair

Nobody ever heard of even numbers in any case of divination.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

We know of no epidemic, nor is a cough scarcely ever heard amongst us.
— from The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. by John West

Nothing so definite can be said as to the effects of newspaper reading and political excitement; nevertheless, I am conscious of effects everywhere present.
— from Change in the Village by George Sturt

"And yet," I wondered, "though my friend and I may be equally necessary, I am certainly irritated by him, and shall as certainly continue to be irritated, not only by him, but by a thousand other men and so, with a light heart, you may go on being irritated with your friend in the bowler hat, you may go on loving those peasants and this sky and sea.
— from Studies and Essays: The Inn of Tranquility, and Others by John Galsworthy