Which Grangousier seeing, said to Gargantua, I think that is the horn of a shell-snail, do not eat it.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

That man's primary and most satisfying ideal is something of this sort is clear in itself, and attested by mythology; for the great use of the gods is that they interpret the human heart to us, and help us, while we conceive them, to discover our inmost ambition and, while we emulate them, to pursue it.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

“I didn’t git it that time,” I told him.
— from Mark Tidd: His Adventures and Strategies by Clarence Budington Kelland

Now, however, that he was known, he listened with great interest to the information that his companion, Mr. F. G. Jackson, leader of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, was able to give him.
— from The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "“Discovery”" by G. Firth Scott

Tommy debated the story grimly as he stood guard in the Tube in the humid jungle night.
— from The Fifth-Dimension Tube by Murray Leinster

No one will object to privilege for a Chatham; but privilege for the Duke of Grafton is a different thing, and Burke's doctrine safeguards the innumerable men of whom Grafton is the type in the hope that by happy accident some Chatham will one day emerge.
— from Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

That which makes actions good is, that they increase the happiness or diminish the pains of mankind.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The god indicated to the inquirer that he might lawfully repudiate any holy truce which was fraudulently antedated.
— from Hellenica by Xenophon

After a while they begin to understand the danger of this proceeding, and half an hour’s rapid firing causes the birds to spread about and get into the trees in the hedges at some distance.
— from Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies