The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow—one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness, and a manifest lack of intellect and cheerful self-reliance; whose first and chief concern, on coming into the world, is to see that the almshouses are in good repair; and, before yet he has lawfully donned the virile garb, to collect a fund for the support of the widows and orphans that may be; who, in short ventures to live only by the aid of the Mutual Insurance company, which has promised to bury him decently.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Some of the young women, with their raven-black hair dressed in glossy ringlets, and bright glistening eyes, are distinctly good-looking, but both good looks and complexion are short-lived, and the women speedily degenerate into uncomely hags.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,—one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness, and a manifest lack of intellect and cheerful self-reliance; whose first and chief concern, on coming into the world, is to see that the alms-houses are in good repair; and, before yet he has lawfully donned the virile garb, to collect a fund for the support of the widows and orphans that may be; who, in short, ventures to live only by the aid of the Mutual Insurance company, which has promised to bury him decently.
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Otherwise you have a second passion.—The soul of the Christian who has freed himself from sin is generally ruined afterwards by the hatred for sin.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Three orange trees have the initials "G. R.," and beneath the letters is inscribed "Republican."
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3) by John Ireland

The appalling mystery of Gray Cloud’s death, Wrapped in impenetrable gloom, remained A blighting shadow o’er the village spread.
— from Winona, a Dakota Legend; and Other Poems by E. L. (Eli Lundy) Huggins

I then advanced towards him, but before I got round a bush that intervened, he had darted away.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I by Charles Sturt

"Better get th' rest of th' gang before I gets rough an' boisterous."
— from Johnny Nelson How a one-time pupil of Hopalong Cassidy of the famous Bar-20 ranch in the Pecos Valley performed an act of knight-errantry and what came of it by Clarence Edward Mulford

Conscious of the dangers of being too sanguine, they try to cool down their spirits in the way which is generally recognized as best for reducing excessive hopefulness.
— from From Dublin to Chicago: Some Notes on a Tour in America by George A. Birmingham

“In Germany ravens are believed to hold the souls of the damned, sometimes to be the evil one himself.”
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir

The tenth division of the Breastplate is the division of the zodiacal Capricorn, the colour of which is generally regarded as black, the colour of the planet Saturn, and which according to Dr. Simmonite, William Lilly, Madame Blavatsky and others, is, esoterically, green.
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

However, it gave Rome a brief breathing space, until her preparations to crush the invader should be completed.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster