It rained all day as I once thought it never did rain anywhere, but in the Highlands of Scotland.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

He who would yield to these impressions would never carry out an undertaking, and on that account PERSEVERANCE in the proposed object, as long as there is no decided reason against it, is a most necessary counterpoise.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

2. Quaesīvit quoque num nec recentīs iniūriās nec dubiam Rōmānōrum amīcitiam memoriā tenērent.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

At Dun Aengus, however, the mystic assemblies and rites, conducted in such a sun-temple, so secure and so strongly fortified against intrusion, no doubt represented a somewhat different mystical school, and probably one very much older than at New Grange.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

2. Quaesîvit quoque num nec recentîs iniûriâs nec dubiam Rômânôrum amîcitiam memoriâ tenêrent.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

There was in Mary's service, as Secretary, an Italian named David Rizzio, a man fairly well advanced in years, rather unprepossessing in appearance, but, according to the testimony of those who knew him well, very clever in business affairs, and of inflexible fidelity.
— from Mary Queen of Scots in History by C. A. Campbell

Is it not, dear reader, a precious thing to trust in the Lord?
— from A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 4 by George Müller

“Pray excuse me,” said I, “but is not droving rather a low-lifed occupation?”
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow

‘Strange,’ ‘old,’ ‘distant,’ are the adjectives he constantly repeats; they have this in common that they indicate something indistinct, not definitely recognisable, away on the bounds of the distant horizon, corresponding, therefore, to the nebulous thought of mysticism.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

For the central clouds, and perhaps even the high cirri, deposit moisture, if not distinctly rain, as is sufficiently proved by the existence of snow on the highest peaks of the Himaleh; and when, on any such mountains, we are brought into close contact with the central clouds, [34] we find them little differing from the ordinary rain-cloud of the plains, except by being slightly less dense and dark.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

The Tory Government had brought in a Land Bill, intended, no doubt, rather as bait for electors than practical politics.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

I never did read all of them.
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

75.—Abnormal Positive (up) Response in Nerve Converted into Normal (down) Response after Continuous Stimulation T (Waller)
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose

And I now deliberately repeat and reaffirm it, resolved, though I stand alone, though all others yield and fall away, to make it good to the last moment of my public life.
— from The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by J. Q. (James Quay) Howard

The acquaintance ripened into friendship; and to the solicitation of this powerful patron, who urged the Queen to give Bacon a high office, she is said to have replied: "He has indeed great wit and much learning, but in law, my lord, he is not deeply read," an opinion perhaps put into her head by his rival Coke, who did indeed know law but scarcely anything else, or by that class of old- fashioned functionaries who could not conceive how a man could master more than one thing.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord