Her knowledge of it, however, is confined only to the outside, and therefore she is equally uncertain of its being really desirable as of its being to be had.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

"He may have some right to it," bitterly returned Don Benito, "he says he was king in his own land.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

And when that is done, the thing they pretend to be a Miracle, we must both see it done, and use all means possible to consider, whether it be really done; and not onely so, but whether it be such, as no man can do the like by his naturall power, but that it requires the immediate hand of God.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The open country was overspread with hordes of shepherds and robbers of Tartar or Turkman origin; the recent conquests of Bajazet were restored to the emirs, one of whom, in base revenge, demolished his sepulchre; and his five sons were eager, by civil discord, to consume the remnant of their patrimony.
— 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

If that were only an inch and a half shorter, I should propose at once to her Mother for it; but religious difference might intervene, so it is better as it is.
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

Strange enough: it is the same tribune raised in mid-air, where a high Mirabeau, a high Barnave and Aristocrat Lameths once thundered: whom gradually your Brissots, Guadets, Vergniauds, a hotter style of Patriots in bonnet rouge, did displace;
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

"She carried it because she couldn't leave it behind," replied Dory.
— from All Adrift; Or, The Goldwing Club by Oliver Optic

This series has been inspired by recent daring feats of the air, and is dedicated to Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberlin and other heroes of the skies.
— from The Rover Boys at Colby Hall; or, The Struggles of the Young Cadets by Edward Stratemeyer

Most of these screw caps may be melted off the original can by simply heating them, the cap itself being removed during this operation.
— from Making Tin Can Toys by Edward Thatcher

“It blows right down the river, too.
— from Don Gordon's Shooting-Box by Harry Castlemon

And mind you," in an nervous afterthought, "tell Mrs. Crane to have it but rarely done.
— from Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McIntyre

The scenes are laid in quiet and virtuous life, and the character and conduct described are generally—with the exception of some of the ordinary exhibitions of childish folly—character and conduct to be imitated; for it is generally better, in dealing with children, to allure them to what is right by agreeable pictures of it, than to attempt to drive them to it by repulsive delineations of what is wrong.
— from Rollo at Play; Or, Safe Amusements by Jacob Abbott

Let no man commend me for doing it, but rather discommend themselves; for if God had not taken away our hearts for our sins, he could not have gone so long unpunished.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 3 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.