He employs no soap to soften the skin or roughen the hair, only a little water.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

“All that proves nothing and explains nothing,” said the student, covering himself up with a sheet; “all that is simply pounding liquid in a mortar.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is to the critical instinct that we owe each new school that springs up, each new mould that art finds ready to its hand.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Is there no one else?" "No," said Tom, stepping into the boat; "I fear the man is drowned; he was carried down the Ripple, I think, when part of the Mill fell with the crash of trees and stones against it; I've shouted again and again, and there has been no answer.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I was very anxious, like every new sailor, to speak her.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

And it's destroyed he'll be going till dark night, and he after eating nothing since the sun went up.
— from Riders to the Sea by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

There did not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so to speak, to bait a fish-hook with; but you didn’t seem to mind that, after a little, because you soon saw that brains were not needed in a society like that, and indeed would have marred it, hindered it, spoiled its symmetry—perhaps rendered its existence impossible.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Perhaps he had dragged the two English policemen to the wastes of a nocturnal heath on an errand no saner than seeking figs on its thistles.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It is too hard for our widely extended national society to suffer thee to labor so unceasingly without a consideration."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Egypt never sent trading ships into the Mediterranean.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

When he caught her glance, the eyes naïvely suggested that she had a communication to make to him, if she dared!
— from The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Hulbert Footner

When Ohio said, "Garfield is my greatest son, and there never has been raised in the cabins of Ohio a grander man"—and when Indiana held up her hands and said, "Allow me to indorse that verdict," I was profoundly happy, because that said to me, "Garfield will carry every Northern State;" that said to me, "The Solid South will be confronted by a great and splendid North.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political by Robert Green Ingersoll

Everybody thereupon assumed that she was a relation of Krupp's, and after that expressed no surprise that she should be so rich.
— from Remarkable Rogues The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America; Second Edition by Charles Kingston

If all persons who settle among the natives would, as far as it is in their power and comes within their province induce, by making it a rule of their house or family, every native servant to sit on a stool or chair; eat at a table instead of on the ground; eat with a knife and fork (or begin with a spoon) instead of with their fingers; eat in the house instead of going out in the yard, garden, or somewhere else under a tree or shed; and sleep on a bed, instead of on a bare mat on the ground; and have them to wear some sort of a garment to cover the entire person above the knees, should it be but a single shirt or chemise, instead of a [Pg 337] loose native cloth thrown around them, to be dropped at pleasure, at any moment exposing the entire upper part of the person—or as in Liberia, where that part of the person is entirely uncovered—I am certain that it would go far toward impressing them with some of the habits of civilized life, as being adapted to them as well as the "white man," whom they so faithfully serve with a will.
— from Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin Robison Delany

On that evening near sunset the second king came [ Pg 49] riding up to the bridge.
— from Czechoslovak Fairy Tales by Parker Fillmore

The victims of quacks might even now show the scoundrels, if they chose, that there are laws in existence fully strong enough to punish them; and we should advise those who have been plundered to state their cases to their solicitors.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Hence it results inevitably that “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest judgment” (ver. 2).
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. (George Alexander) Chadwick