And Saint Anthony exclaimed in his face: “Eh, is not that superfine?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I indeed expected to see a much larger quantity of sediment produced from the lime, on account of the air which water constantly contains, and with a view to know whether water retains its air when fully saturated with lime, a lime-water was made as strong as possible; four ounces of which were placed under the receiver of an air-pump, together with four ounces of common water in a vial of the same size; and, upon exhausting the receiver, without heating the vials, the air arose from each in nearly the same quantity: from whence it is evident, that the air, which quick-lime attracts, is of a different kind from that which is mixed with water.
— from Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances by Joseph Black

I think all reasoning and experience show that if you [198] confront a man day by day with nothing but a picture of his own unworthiness, the final effect is, not to stimulate, but to paralyze his moral energy.
— from The English Novel and the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier

The landowners clung to the belief { 149} that tares would appear in a field even if no tare seed was ever planted in that field, while the son of the West insisted that no such growth could take place without the seed having first been introduced into the field in some natural way.
— from The Syrian Christ by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany

He was answered by a learned doctor of Japan who argued that the greatness of all great men consisted simply in opportunity, and that for every illustrious name that shone in the pages of history, associated with important events, a hundred abler men had lived and died unknown.
— from Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Ignatius Donnelly

They had a black dress, with a white cross on the breast, and, from having been at first employed in nursing the sick and relieving the poor, they became warriors who fought against the Mussulmans.
— from Sketches of Church History, from A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson

I dun took the cullud part of the town fo' I come; the white folks hain't seen what I has, and they'll be took when I tell 'em;" and off she toddled, for Eliza is not the slender woman I once knew her.
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

But when the ideas attempted to be written far exceeded in number the symbols, or, what is more likely, the invention of the limners, recourse was had to the combination of the symbols already understood to express the new idea.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams