They call thee mine ape, thou foaming fool: but I call thee my grunting-pig,—by thy grunting, thou spoilest even my praise of folly.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

an old indian road very large and plain leads up this fork, but I could see no tracks except those of horses which appeared to have passed early in the spring.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

There was no wound upon the dead man’s person, but the agitated expression upon his face assured me that he had foreseen his fate before it came upon him.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Next time I will write more fully, but I can't possibly go on to-day, for my fingers do ache uncommonly.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Of course I did not say anything, for I did not want to hurt his feelings, but I could have explained to him that if you take a great long low dog like that and waddle it along the street anywhere in the world and not charge anything, people will stop and look.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Rolant was the owner of Old Abbey Farm on the Cross-Wood Estate, and originally was a well-to-do and respectable farmer, but in consequence of mortgages on the estate he lost his property.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The way was very intricate, lying up the steep sides of mountains and along the brows of cliffs; clouds had come in with the sunset, and the night was dark and cool; so that I walked without much fatigue, but in continual fear of falling and rolling down the mountains, and with no guess at our direction.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Before the receipt by me of these orders the battle of Chickamauga had been fought and Rosecrans forced back into Chattanooga.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

“That’s where I am puzzled; for before I can repent; I must think of it, and when I think of it I find nothing for which to repent.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

An important battle was fought at Sulcost, near Limerick, in the year 968, in which the Danes were defeated, and fled back in confusion to their walls, the Munster men, under Brian, following fast at their heels, and entering at the same time.
— from The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless

His face seemed familiar, but I could not recall it.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

George remained silent, standing gloomily at the window, looking on the approach, with its trimly-cut shrubs and spring flowers, blooming in conventional
— from The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. Swan

Three hundred Knights of St. John and thirteen hundred soldiers had indeed fallen in the first, but its capture had closed the lives of eight thousand Turks.
— from The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole

I have not tried to make the discussion as extensive as that for young men, first, because I cannot believe that young women in general need so much special instruction; and, second, because only women can adequately advise concerning the sex-educational problems of young women.
— from Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Maurice A. (Maurice Alpheus) Bigelow

There are in each case very real differences between the new and the old nation; differences both for good and for evil; but in each case there is the same ancestral history to reckon with, the same type of civilization, with its attendant benefits and shortcomings; and, after the pioneer stages are passed, the problems to be solved, in spite of superficial differences, are in their essence the same; they are those that confront all civilized peoples, not those that confront only peoples struggling from barbarism into civilization.
— from African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

Such beings there did exist, and probably exist still, who united a firm belief in certain religious dogmas to the most woeful want of moral principle and human feeling, and were ready to fight what they deemed God's cause with the weapons of the devil.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

Frederick H. McDonald (A); 1Mar66; R382244. MCDONALD, JAMES F. Brothers in crime.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

I know it is generally a thankless task to tell mothers of their children's faults, but I can bear it if it is done kindly, though as bad as anybody if it is done unkindly.
— from The Home at Greylock by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss