The Indians of our time are unable to give any information relative to the history of this unknown people.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Now, though Molly was, as we have said, generally thought a very fine girl, and in reality she was so, yet her beauty was not of the most amiable kind.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

He suggested the jeweller's shop where I had last seen him; that shop, some shirt-studs which I had bought there; they, the value of gold and its recent decline; the latter, the equal value of greenbacks, and this, naturally, the question of how long they were to last, and of the Bayard proposition.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The mass of those metals may gradually and insensibly diminish, and their value gradually and insensibly rise, till the annual importation becoming again stationary, the annual consumption will gradually and insensibly accommodate itself to what that annual importation can maintain.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

They come and go, and it remains—"so shakes the magnet, and so stands the pole."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Such was the excitement that the Parker's Falls Gazette anticipated its regular day of publication, and came out with half a form of blank paper and a column of double pica emphasized with capitals and headed "HORRID MURDER OF MR. HIGGINBOTHAM!"
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dialectic may be further described as that science which defines and explains the essence or being of each nature, which distinguishes and abstracts the good, and is ready to do battle against all opponents in the cause of good.
— from The Republic by Plato

The little hand was drawn away from his, but not with a sudden or angry gesture, and it rested for one moment lightly and tremulously upon his dark hair.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Thus an imaginary self-transcendence, a rash pretension to grasp an independent reality and to know the unknowable, may find itself accidentally rewarded.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The article "The Ghetto and Its Relation to Jewish Missions."
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Covered with magnificent wolf robes, and drawn by twelve young men, fur-clad from head to foot—her "human huskies"—the Queen of the North dashed up to the Royal Box, where, surrounded by her ten pretty maids of honor, like her clad in rare furs of Arctic design and fashioning, she was given an imposing reception by the judges and directors of the Kennel Club.
— from Baldy of Nome by Esther Birdsall Darling

It will hardly be disputed that in Mr. G.F. Watts, one of the truest Pre-Raphaelites in aspiration and temper, though utterly distinct from them in original genius and intellectual range, England has found at last her greatest portrait painter, while to Millais, one of the original members of the Brotherhood, the judgment of posterity will attribute a scarcely less exalted place.
— from Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood

Above, among the bushes, leaning His head on His hand, is seated Christ, weary to death, numbed by grief and isolation, recruiting for final resistance.
— from Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee

This work, written like Zizania's grammar in the White-Russian dialect, [56] was for a long time considered as of good authority; it reappeared in several editions, and served as the basis of most of the grammars written during the 17th and 18th centuries.
— from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry by Talvj

When any real distressed objects present themselves at the Company's Factory, they are always relieved with victuals, clothes, medicines, and every other necessary, gratis ; and in return, they instruct every one of their countrymen how to behave, in order to obtain the same charity.
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne

The Duke of Kent, Maudelain was informed, had taken a fancy to a peasant girl, and in remonstrance her misguided father had actually tugged at his Grace’s sleeve.
— from Chivalry: Dizain des Reines by James Branch Cabell

'I'm your guardian angel,' I replied.
— from The Little Nugget by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Later, the main bridge being blown down, the Supreme Court granted an injunction restraining the reconstruction.
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

He gives as its range the Mississippi Valley, from Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas to Minnesota and Michigan.
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent

This letter contained insulting allusions to the Pontifical government; and its requirements would have annihilated, in the estimation of Europe, the independence of the Sovereign Pontiff, whilst personally dishonoring him.
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson