The error can be shown to be an error, by examining the lives of those who represent it: a false step, a vice can refute....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The next day we continued our journey up the valley of the American Fork, stopping at various camps, where mining was in progress; and about noon we reached Coloma, the place where gold had been first discovered.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

On the other hand, I reflect that he related and told the story with all the circumstances detailed, and that he could not in so short a space have fabricated such a vast complication of absurdities; if, then, this adventure seems apocryphal, it is no fault of mine; and so, without affirming its falsehood or its truth, I write it down.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

She is already the mother of four or five sons, all valiant cavaliers.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The excavation of the Erie Canal, the parent of all the subsequent improvements of a similar nature in the United States, opened-up for settlement a vast country to the westward, which would otherwise for many years have remained a wilderness, unfit for the habitation of man.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

[Pg 100] embracing one another—Virtue, namely, who was shown holding Fortune in a strait and loving embrace, with a motto on the base saying, VIRTUTEM FORTUNA SEQUETUR ; as if to demonstrate that, whatever many may say, where virtue is fortune is never wanting; and upon the other Fatigue or Diligence, who in like manner was shown in the act of embracing Victory, with a motto at her feet saying: AMAT VICTORIA CURAM .
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. by Giorgio Vasari

The agricultural labourer, and the countryman generally, does not recognize any form of property beyond land, houses, buildings, farm stock, and visible chattels.
— from Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur Herbert Savory

The advertising columns of the leading dailies will tell all about the numerous local lines that skirt our coast as far South as Vera Cruz and Aspinwall, and they may or may not tell us of a line from New York to Rio de Janeiro flying the American flag.
— from How to Travel Hints, Advice, and Suggestions to Travelers by Land and Sea all over the Globe. by Thomas Wallace Knox

Be this as it may, it was humanly impossible for such a vast country with such vast resources in men and raw materials to remain permanently quiescent during an universal conflagration when there was so much to be salvaged.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

* A. FINLEY HAS CONSTANTLY FOR SALE, A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF Theological Works, Family Bibles, &c.
— from An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Adam Ferguson

To the ordinary mind it seems impossible that apoplexy could result from such a varicosed condition as is described in this case.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

nil A comparison of the figures shows a very considerable raising of the standard as regards comfort and even necessaries.
— from London by Walter Besant

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 0.4% (FY02) Transnational Issues Moldova Disputes - international: difficulties with the Transnistria region complicate border crossing and customs with Ukraine, facilitating smuggling, arms transfers, and other illegal activities Illicit drugs: limited cultivation of opium poppy and cannabis, mostly for CIS consumption; transshipment point for illicit drugs from Southwest Asia via Central Asia to Russia, Western Europe, and possibly the US; widespread crime and underground economic activity
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"Thank you," replied Aquareine, quietly; and then the four followed Sacho along various corridors until they came to a large room, where a dozen men were busily at work.
— from The Sea Fairies by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum