I am not trying to get out of repeating the details of the Siege of Lucknow in fear of the reviewer; I am not leaving them out in fear that they would not interest the reader; I am leaving them out partly to save work; mainly for lack of room.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

No more considering the States as an incident, or series of incidents, however vast, coming accidentally along the path of time, and shaped by casual emergencies as they happen to arise, and the mere result of modern improvements, vulgar and lucky, ahead of other nations and times, I would finally plant, as seeds, these thoughts or speculations in the growth of our republic—that it is the deliberate culmination and result of all the past—that here, too, as in all departments of the universe, regular laws (slow and sure in planting, slow and sure in ripening) have controll'd and govern'd, and will yet control and govern; and that those laws can no more be baffled or steer'd clear of, or vitiated, by chance, or any fortune or opposition, than the laws of winter and summer, or darkness and light.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Thus, it is a law of motion, discovered by experience, that the moment or force of any body in motion is in the compound ratio or proportion of its solid contents and its velocity; and consequently, that a small force may remove the greatest obstacle or raise the greatest weight, if, by any contrivance or machinery, we can increase the velocity of that force, so as to make it an overmatch for its antagonist.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

He made to them the same feeling address, with more personal allusions, because of their special gallantry in the battle under Corcoran, who was still a prisoner in the hands of the enemy; and he concluded with the same general offer of redress in case of grievances.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Shakespeare, A. Y. L. v. 4. 179, where it is said that those "That have endur'd shrewd days and nights with us Shall share the good of our returned fortune.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Wà kay mapùpù sa pagsúruy, There’s nothing you can get out of roaming about.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest.]
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The pirates pulled vigorously at their oars that they might get out of range of the bullets.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

We do not know when it was written, or whether it is of Greek or of Roman origin.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

When here Deucalion (for the sea had covered all other places), borne in a little ship, with the partner of his couch, first rested; they adored the Corycian Nymphs, 56 and the Deities of the mountain, and the prophetic Themis, 57 22 I. 321-337 who at that time used to give out oracular responses.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

It will be killed if scalded, or if frozen, as any other plant would be; therefore, as we depend upon the growth of this little plant for raising our bread, we must give its requirements as much care as we do our geraniums or our roses.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

To copy foreign manners implicitly, is to reverse the order of things, and begin our political existence with the corruptions and vices which have marked the declining glories of other republics.
— from Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical; to Which is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, With Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject by Noah Webster

For, the civilization and the moral elevation of man is the great object of revelation; and it appears clear, and conformable to [Pg 132] reason, that, where future history is taught in the Pentateuch by figures, it should be figuratively, and not dogmatically, explained.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

With that he waved his hand, and her white ensign, whose blood-red cross of Saint George stood out in bold relief, dipped in parting salute to our vessel, which reciprocated the compliment as the man-of-war bore away on her course to the northward, a group of officers rollicking round their captain on her deck aft and gazing at us as she moved off rapidly under a full pressure of steam, evidently admiring our skipper’s wonderful sea anchor.
— from The Ghost Ship: A Mystery of the Sea by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

For anything we know, there may be natives about; and some of us might get stuck full of their arrows before we could get out of range.
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I'll give you five minutes to get out of range."
— from The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

Pages and knights, maids and matrons, gloves of silk and gloves of mail, wrinkled palms and babies' fingers, the men, the women, the children of twelve generations of our race, my dear, have handled this.
— from The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

There was its great outline of rise, zenith, and decline; there was its outward history in minute detail, and its conduct in varying circumstances; and there was the inner life of the man’s soul, which was perhaps simpler than some of us think.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete by Filson Young

"Did you tell your governess of our rencontre yesterday, and how your dogs barked at me?" asked Durnford carelessly, yet with a keen look in his dark gray eyes.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But to the thousands who do valiantly this conflict belongs to the vital struggle in which some idea of the morally good or of religious duty directs and animates the soul.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson