If it is hard for you to write in a straight line, use the lined guide that comes with nearly all stationery; if impossible to keep an even margin, draw a perpendicular line at the left of the guide so that you can start each new line of writing on it.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

This would have been flattery to the majority of authors, but to Jim Curwood, who lived in the vivid and exciting northwoods life of which he wrote, it was just a fighting challenge.
— from James Oliver Curwood, Disciple of the Wilds by Hobart Donald Swiggett

It is remarkable that in this species the terga are united to the sheath, not, as is usual, by a single opercular membrane, but by five or six, one above the other, the upper membranes not having been exuviated as each new lower one was formed.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

It is generally admitted that two races of men are found, either now living or whose remains are found in Mexican sepulchres.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

The first few flakes of snow turned the attention of the boys to an entirely new line of weather observations.
— from The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

On the very threshold of the period at which the history is resumed in this volume, we find a minute account by Willis of an epidemic in the year 1661, which at once raises the question whether a certain species of infectious fever did really exist at [Pg 5] that time which exists no longer, or whether Willis described as “a fever of the brain and nervous stock” what we now call enteric fever.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

Yet is there in English no letter of which the name is always identical with its power: for A, E, I, O , and U , are the only letters which can name themselves, and all these have other sounds than those which their names express.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

His first day in Chicago ended with the long letter he wrote to Justine, an epistle teeming with enthusiasm and joy, brimming over with descriptions and experiences, not least of which was the story of Christopher Barlow.
— from The Sherrods by George Barr McCutcheon

I told them that this state of things could be endured no longer, on which point they agreed with me, but saw no means to help it.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore