Formerly in frequent use, now confined to the streets, where it is very general.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

In the city of Zenith, in the barbarous twentieth century, a family's motor indicated its social rank as precisely as the grades of the peerage determined the rank of an English family—indeed, more precisely, considering the opinion of old county families upon newly created brewery barons and woolen-mill viscounts.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances: I want this because it is of no use wanting anything better.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Plato does not give the final solution of philosophical questions for us; nor can he be judged of by our standard.
— from The Republic by Plato

"Common Questions and Answers about the Internet Gopher" are posted to the following Usenet newsgroups comp.infosystems.gopher, comp.answers, and news.answers every two weeks.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

For when he had come straight from the country to the court, the moment that Constantius had invested him with the purple robe he at once began to be jealous of him, nor did he cease from that feeling until, not content with stripping him of the purple, he had destroyed him.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

If therefore they must have one to rule them, as government is hardly to be avoided amongst men that live together; who so likely to be the man as he that was their common father; unless negligence, cruelty, or any other defect of mind or body made him unfit for it?
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

For universally nothing can be better in nature than the source from which it has come; therefore on most true grounds of reason would I conclude that which is the source of all things to be in its own essence the highest good.'
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

" "Who'll play the harp for us now?" "Cipriano.
— from When the Owl Cries by Paul Alexander Bartlett

These were marched in and it is up to them to hold the fort until night comes again, when guns are to be planted there.
— from Diary of an Enlisted Man by Lawrence Van Alstyne

When the battery ceased—to permit their cavalry to charge and complete the work of destruction—the square was again upon their feet, no face unformed, no chasm to allow the horsemen entrance, but a serried line of impassable bayonets was before them, while the rear ranks threw in a reserved fire with murderous precision.
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood

The wood fibre undergoes no change in appearance by this treatment; but a change takes place in its chemical composition, which may thus be exemplified: Cellulose (unconverted cotton or wood fibre).
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Wherein did the price which He paid for us not consist?
— from Lessons in the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther For the Senior Department of Lutheran Sunday-Schools and for General Use by George Mezger

Il attache la cravate à l’anneau et fait un nœud coulant....
— from Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) by Alphonse Daudet