170 We fight neither for revenge nor conquest; neither from pride nor passion; we are not insulting the world with our fleets and armies, nor ravaging the globe for plunder.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Moreover, lies come generally from people with regard to whom one is, for one reason or another, already cautious, while these insinuating approximations are made by people who are not mistrusted at all.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The soil and climate of that part of the Province is represented as being well adapted to the growth of the tobacco plant, and the enterprise which is exhibited to secure the advantages thus held out, gives fair promise that the article will before long be added to the list of the staple productions of our country, and afford not only a suffi [548] cient supply for home consumption, but also form an important item in the schedule of Canadian exports."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Benares a Religious Temple—A Guide for Pilgrims to Save Time in
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Nobody could do it, but that good fellow" (pointing to Captain Wentworth.)
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Kant did the like in his sphere, and it was all he profess'd to do; his labors have left the ground fully prepared ever since—and greater service was probably never perform'd by mortal man.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Moonan got fifth place in the Indian. O’Shaughnessy got fourteenth.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

NOTE 1.—[There were two roads to go from Peking to Shangtu: the eastern road through Tu-shi-k'ow, and the western (used for the return journey) road by Ye-hu ling.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Home Geography for Primary Grades HOME GEOGRAPHY FOR PRIMARY GRADES BY C. C. LONG, Ph.D. AUTHOR OF NEW LANGUAGE LESSONS, LESSONS IN ENGLISH, ETC. CONTENTS.
— from Home Geography for Primary Grades by C. C. Long

317.).—The statues in honour of this Saint must be familiar to every one who has visited Bohemia, as also the spot of his martyrdom at Prague, indicated by some brass stars let into the parapet of the Steinerne Brücke , on the right-hand side going from Prague to the suburb called the Kleinseite .
— from Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various

From the middle beam, in which the grooves for planking are still seen, a wainscot partition was fixed to the back of the daïs, and behind it was the withdrawing room.
— from The Book of Coniston by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood

There were two gentlemen from Pen-y-gwryd must speak with Mr. Mellot immediately.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

He rang the changes upon his great fundamental principle; he defended his course in respect to Lecomptonism; he denounced the Republican party as a sectional organization whose leaders were bent upon "outvoting, conquering, governing, and controlling the South.
— from Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson

Another sign for nothing , none , made by the Comanche is: Flat hand thrown forward, back to the ground, fingers pointing forward and downward.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

He issued a proclamation declaring why he had dismissed the Parliament, charging the Commons with malice and disaffection to the State, and with designing to bring government and magistracy into contempt; and he gave fresh proofs of his vindictive feeling by arresting a number of the members the day after the dissolution.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Dearborn County gave Franklin Pierce a big majority in ’52, and the bulk of our farmers, I know, were in that majority.
— from In the Sixties by Harold Frederic

It may suffice, however, to quote his "Dream of a Spelling-Bee," an engaging piece of dictionary-made nonsense verse:— Menageries where sleuth-hounds caracole, Where jaguar phalanx and phlegmatic gnu Fright ptarmigan and kestrels cheek by jowl With peewit and precocious cockatoo: Gaunt seneschals, in crochety cockades, With seine-nets trawl for porpoise in lagoons; While scullions gauge erratic escapades Of madrepores in water-logged galleons: Flamboyant triptychs groined with gherkins green, In reckless fracas with coquettish bream, Ecstatic gurgoyles, with grotesque chagrin, Garnish the gruesome nightmare of my dream!
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 3 (of 4).—1874-1892 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves