“I repeat that I grant it,” replied Don Quixote; “and so, lady, you may from this day forth lay aside the melancholy that distresses you, and let your failing hopes gather new life and strength, for with the help of God and of my arm you will soon see yourself restored to your kingdom, and seated upon the throne of your ancient and mighty realm, notwithstanding and despite of the felons who would gainsay it; and now hands to the work, for in delay there is apt to be danger.” The distressed damsel strove with much pertinacity to kiss his hands; but Don Quixote, who was in all things a polished and courteous knight, would by no means allow it, but made her rise and embraced her with great courtesy and politeness, and ordered Sancho to look to Rocinante’s girths, and to arm him without a moment’s delay.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A small export trade to Europe had developed by 1770, the year when the first plantation was established in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and from which the country's great industry really dates.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

IN PERCEPTION.—When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

They are of two kinds: the first are entirely topographical and statistical, and their object is to gain a knowledge of a country, its accidents of ground, its roads, defiles, bridges, &c., and to learn its resources and means of every kind.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Not only crockery but glass is readily drilled by these means, and one who has seen the rapidity with which these drills rotate can readily understand the necessity for the advice given both by Hippocrates and Celsus to frequently remove the drill and dip it in cold water, in case sufficient heat be generated by the friction to cause subsequent exfoliation of the neighbouring bone.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

During the astonishing Chorus of the Prisoners, over which the delightful voice of the actress rose and soared in the most ravishing harmony, the English lady's face wore such an expression of wonder and delight that it struck even little Fipps, the blase attache, who drawled out, as he fixed his glass upon her, "Gayd, it really does one good to see a woman caypable of that stayt of excaytement."
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

IMPARTIALITÉ D'UN SOUVERAIN Gustave III, roi de Suède, était un despote éclairé et aimait à faire justice de tout le monde, sans partialité.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Years ago, when I was a baby girl, I remember dimly seeing two men in an awful fight one night just at dusk down on the railroad track by Clover Creek in Ohio.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

These are also kindly deceptions which prompt him to pursue or expect his own good when, though not destined to come in the form he looks for, this good is really destined to come in some shape or other.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But I think that the gentleman is right, Dunny,' was hovering in the doorway.
— from The Castle Inn by Stanley John Weyman

He had a gentle, if rather dry, clean-shaven face, and wore his dust-colored hair long behind.
— from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

Wampole’s Preparation in three Cases sustained and in one case promoted growth in rats during periods of eighteen and thirty-nine days, showing, however, only 51.4 gm.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

"But for all that I don't want Sonny to talk of strangling the grooms; it really doesn't sound nice.
— from In the Guardianship of God by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Now, if a fir tree is in a sheltered place, where the soil is deep and sandy, it grows to a tremendous size; but if the seed falls in a rocky place, where it has to get its roots down cracks to find food, and cling tightly against the cold freezing winds, it keeps down close to the ground, and gets to be a poor scrubby bush a few feet high, or less.”
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn

It was there that they again outwitted the Tramp Club, who took their defeat good-naturedly and by way of retaliation aided the girls in running down a mysterious enemy whose malicious mischief had caused them repeated annoyance.
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea; Or, The Loss of The Lonesome Bar by Janet Aldridge

GENERAL: I received, day before yesterday, at the hands of Lieutenant Dunn, your letter of December 8d, and last night, at the hands of Colonel Babcock, that of December 6th.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan