If it does not give light enough I shall sell it and buy another.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

[Footnote: In instancing these facts, as serving under comparison to explain how the hepatic vessels constitute no radical exception to the law of symmetry which presides over the development and distribution of the vascular system as a whole, I am led to inquire in what respect (if in any) the liver as an organ forms an exception to this general law either in shape, in function, or in relative position.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

His fortune before the war, represented mostly by great landed estates in Silesia, mines, etc., amounted approximately to thirty million dollars.
— from Face to Face with Kaiserism by James W. (James Watson) Gerard

"It is good law English, I suppose, Rose."
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

" Let us ponder this description of the Third International by its manager and greatest living expert: its scope, a confederation of the world's Communists, a coalition of the Communist parties of all countries; its size, 8,000,000 members, perhaps greatly exaggerated; its nature, "an instrument of revolution;" and its determination, to carry on propaganda, for the violent seizure of every land by a dictatorship, "no matter what happens, legally or illegally."
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

But there was little preparation of the ground, and few seeds got lodgment except in stony places, by the wayside and among thorns.
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

" Did I tell you how glad I was that you've got 'Lord Effingham' into shape?
— from Happy House by Hutten zum Stolzenberg, Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von

We must leave in peace this blessed grave, and go search for one with whom we were well acquainted [Mrs. Stoddard], and whose gentle, loving example is so graven on the tablet of memory, that it cannot be erased.
— from Woman and Her Saviour in Persia By a Returned Missionary by Thomas Laurie

The king was waiting for him at the gate, let each in singly, counting till he reached a hundred,—not one missing from the round number.
— from Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin

And as the powerful engines of the Polaris picked up speed, Strong imagined he could hear Gargantuan laughter echoing in space around him.
— from On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Carey Rockwell