General remarks on expression are of comparatively little value; and memory is so deceptive that I earnestly beg it may not be trusted.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Any way, we're bound to each other as fast as ever we were, so we needn't think to get rid of each other just yet."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The reign of independent Barbarism is now contracted to a narrow span; and the remnant of Calmucks or Uzbecks, whose forces may be almost numbered, cannot seriously excite the apprehensions of the great republic of Europe.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He wants to get rid of eyes and ears, and with the light of the mind only to behold the light of truth.
— from Phaedo by Plato

Biedma describes it as a rough mountain country, thinly populated, but with a few Indian houses, and thinks that in these mountains the great river of Espiritu Santo (the Mississippi) had its birth.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Dardanus, who sailed to the Teucrian land, the first father and founder of the Ilian city, was born, as Greeks relate, of Electra the Atlantid; Electra's sire is ancient Atlas, whose shoulder sustains the heavenly spheres.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

I have contracted for one-half the gross receipts of evening and the entire receipts of afternoon lectures.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

We cannot refrain here from offering a few observations upon the good results of education to the seaman.
— from Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly

Is it strange that the troubles of the road came from too great earnings rather than from too small, and that instead of striving to maintain solvency the directors had to seek ways and means for concealing or getting rid of earnings without arousing the hostility of legislators to whom 10 per cent dividends seemed high, and anything over 10 per cent proof of extortion?
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

On the contrary, the mere fact of dealing with matters outside the general run of everyday experience laid me under the obligation of a more scrupulous fidelity to the truth of my own sensations.
— from Notes on My Books by Joseph Conrad

Nadisiutsuhan ku sa Tabuan, apan gamay ra ang ákung napalit, I got rid of eighteen pesos, but I bought very little.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Teeters,” he continued, impressively, “lemme tell you somethin’: anybody can git a post office by writin’ a postal card to Washington, but men have gone down to their graves tryin’ to git rid of ’em.
— from The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart

Two were just going to bite me, but I got rid of 'em!" "Don't be afraid, Songbird," came from Tom.
— from The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle; or, The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht by Edward Stratemeyer

See Adoption young son, unmarried, to be provided for, 57 , 166 State: composed of three classes, 74 having other grades, 76 sq. Steward: accounts from, 302 temple officer, 213 Stolen goods, retention of equals theft, 45 , 10 Strangling, penalty of, 56 , 155 Striking.
— from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

Must it not be, at least, double that of the belt of calms, or the “great region of expansion,” as Professor Dove calls it?
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

It is not, of course, to the gross forms of the Priapus used in ancient Greek, Roman, or Egyptian Festivals that we allude, but to the much more refined, and, if we may so call it, modest lingam worship of India.”— The Author.
— from Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings