An interesting letter from the Countess of Moira, published in the "Archæologia Britannica," gives an account of a human body found in gravel under eleven feet of peat, soaked in the bog-water; it was in good preservation, and completely clothed in antique garments of deer-hair, conjectured to be that of the Giant Elk.
— from The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse

For a friend I give up everything!
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

Well, I guess I didn't sleep much, and finally, I got up early, and wrote a letter to Aunt Matty, in Sacramento, and I ran over to Dinwoodie's with it this morning, and asked Lew if he was going up there to-day.
— from Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris

The monasteries were destroyed; hence there were no vicars to supply the parish churches, which fell into ruin; the king endeavoured rather to Anglify than to Protestantise the people by sending to them bishops and clergy from [pg 28] England-but they were mere state officials, not fathers in God; unable even to speak the Irish language; what real preaching there was was done by friars sent from Rome and Madrid.
— from Is Ulster Right? by Anonymous

“If you once begin, sir,” added the cheerful Pedgift, “you’ll find it get uncommonly easy as you go on.
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

For the public and household library it is a work of sterling interest, for it gathers up every important fact connected with the struggle now pending, and presents it in a form easy to be examined.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

If a little ashes be sprinkled on a dead fly, it gets up, experiences a second birth, and starts life afresh, which is recognized as a convincing proof that its soul is immortal, inasmuch as after it has departed it returns, recognizes and reanimates the body, and enables it to fly; so is confirmed the tale about Hermotimus of Clazomenae—how his soul frequently left him and went off on its own account, and afterwards returning occupied the body again and restored the man to life.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by of Samosata Lucian

For its great underlying elements it necessarily reverts to those embodied in our own earlier poets, Chaucer above all, to whom, after barely one hundred and fifty years, men looked up as a father of song: but in points of style and treatment, the poets of the sixteenth century lie under a double external influence—that of the poets of Greece and Rome (known either in their own tongues or by translation), and that of the modern literatures which had themselves undergone the same classical impulse.
— from A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick by Robert Herrick

These were pitched upon the shore, at first in groups, until each person had learned the situation of his lot, when he immediately removed thereto.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff