With respect to French, it is no doubt essential to comfort to understand it; it is one of the attributes of a lady to speak it well; still, it is not indispensable to speak it so well that the American lady is mistaken for a Parisian.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

the management of the Canoe for various purposes Seams to be a duty common to both Sexes, as are many other occupations which with most Indian nations devolve exclusively on the womin.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

That he was guilty of various acts of adultery, is not denied even by his friends; but they allege in excuse for it, that he engaged in those intrigues not from lewdness, but from policy, in order to discover more easily the designs of his enemies, through their wives.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

“Because only peasants, or the most inexperienced novices deny everything flatly at examinations.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now, this conclusion (which is that of the story as we have it upon record) is, no doubt, excessively proper and pleasant—but alas!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

" "That will I not do, even to mine own brother," answered the Tinker.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

It is not dark enough yet.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Her “no” is not definite; e.g., her “no” to a man’s demands.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Real histories are few, evidently because there is not demand enough to encourage historians to enter the field, and not because material is lacking.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various

Hab you chillens neber heard how on New-Year Eve, when de clock strike twelve, down come all de pictur’ folkses to shake hands and wish each oder ‘Happy New-Year,’ and den, if nuffin disturb ’em, mebbe dey dance in de firelight.”
— from Strange Stories of Colonial Days by Various

The "Sonnet to Zante" is not discoverable earlier than January, 1837, when it appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger .
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

su conservacion y recta administracion sin que las puedan impedir ni disponer en ellas los principes seculares.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

What we maintain is, that even if we admit unreservedly that the earth, and the whole system to which it belongs, once existed in a nebulous state, from which they have been gradually evolved into their present condition conformably to physical laws, we are in no degree entitled to infer from the admission the conclusion which Comte and others have drawn.
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint

Monge, the artist and virtuoso, was Buonaparte's confidant on this occasion, and, there is no doubt, encouraged him to an undertaking which promised a rich harvest to the antiquarian, among the ruins of temples and palaces, hitherto imperfectly examined.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

I give a reproduction opposite page 102, but the Cupid unfortunately is not distinct enough.
— from A Wanderer in Venice by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

It no doubt engenders animosity and provokes violent contentions: it stimulates politicians to impute to their opponents corrupt motives which they could not for a moment imagine themselves capable of entertaining.
— from The Mother of Parliaments by Harry Graham