There are not half as many shirtmakers in New York to-day as only a few years ago, and some of the largest firms have closed their city shops.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

For no one who is asleep is good for anything, any more than if he were dead; but he of us who has the most regard for life and reason keeps awake as long as he can, reserving only so much time for sleep as is expedient for health; and much sleep is not required, if the habit of moderation be once rightly formed.
— from Laws by Plato

"Hawthorne and Mosses," said I, "no more it is morning: it is July in the country: and I am off for the barn."
— from The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches by Herman Melville

At the Rowan County Agricultural Fair, held at Mineral Springs, in North Carolina, on the 13th day of November, 1856, thirty premiums, ranging from twenty-five cents to two dollars each, were awarded to successful competitors—the aggregate amount of said premiums being $42, or an average of $1.40 each.
— from The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper

On the basis of horses and mules stolen in New Mexico, a regular trade was maintained by Indians across the country to Louisiana.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

While at the World's Fair in San Francisco I sat with a receiver and heard a man speaking in New York as plainly as though he were in the next room.
— from Birdseye Views of Far Lands by James T. (James Thomas) Nichols

Sturbridge Fair. Stourbridge, or Sturbich, the name of a common field, extending between Chesterton and Cambridge, near the little brook Sture, for about half a mile square, is noted for its fair, which is kept annually on September 19th, and continues a fortnight.
— from Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caueat, Haben's Sermon, &c. by Harman, Thomas, active 1567

You must now understand, my friend, that if I have abandoned my ship in New York to the care of my mate, if I, who hate dry land, have started on a journey through the desert, it must be for powerful reasons."
— from The Missouri Outlaws by Gustave Aimard

Carlyle’s heroes are mostly supermen; individuals, not types.
— from An Ocean Tramp by William McFee

'But we won't have any marrows,' said I. 'No marrows?
— from Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Unfortunately he's rather proud, and as I don't want any scenes between him and my sister, I no longer go to see her.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4 by Émile Zola

His daughter, Ling-chao, heard both outbursts and showed them the truth with her assertion, "My study is neither difficult nor easy.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover