Cervantes, indeed, to the last generously and manfully declared his admiration of Lope's powers, his unfailing invention, and his marvellous fertility; but in the preface of the First Part of "Don Quixote" and in the verses of "Urganda the Unknown," and one or two other places, there are, if we read between the lines, sly hits at Lope's vanities and affectations that argue no personal good-will; and Lope openly sneers at "Don Quixote" and Cervantes, and fourteen years after his death gives him only a few lines of cold commonplace in the "Laurel de Apolo," that seem all the colder for the eulogies of a host of nonentities whose names are found nowhere else.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Cervantes, indeed, to the last generously and manfully declared his admiration of Lope’s powers, his unfailing invention, and his marvellous fertility; but in the preface of the First Part of “Don Quixote” and in the verses of “Urganda the Unknown,” and one or two other places, there are, if we read between the lines, sly hits at Lope’s vanities and affectations that argue no personal good-will; and Lope openly sneers at “Don Quixote” and Cervantes, and fourteen years after his death gives him only a few lines of cold commonplace in the “Laurel de Apolo,” that seem all the colder for the eulogies of a host of nonentities whose names are found nowhere else.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"The first load of coals came in that way, but master wouldn't have it used: he didn't like a door to his house he never set eyes on, he said.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

By the same process, fruit-stains or iron-moulds may be removed from linen or cotton cloths, if the spots be previously moistened with water.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

An interesting list remains of nine books brought over to England by St. Augustine the missionary which formed the first library of Christ Church in Canterbury.
— from Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

Generalissimo Chiang K'ai-shek THE CHINA OF CHIANG K'AI-SHEK: A Political Study BY PAUL M. A. LINEBARGER Duke University GREENWOOD PRESS, PUBLISHERS WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT The Library of Congress has catalogued this publication as follows : Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony, 1913-1966.
— from The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

But it came of the insane courage of the ants, attacking the burning stuff with their horny jaws, rolling over and over with flaming lumps of charcoal clutched in their mandibles.
— from The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster

The French literature of Columbus' Century is but little, if at all, below that of Italy in world influence and interest.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh