I come to heah ’bout it pooty soon, so I ups en settles de trouble by tellin’ ’um she don’t b’long to none uv um, but to you en me; en I ast ’m if dey gwyne to grab a young white genlman’s propaty, en git a hid’n for it?
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold, stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and that, which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The needle-carrier N is attached at its upper end to the centre of the diaphragm.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

I never could find out any difference between a party at Boston and a party in London, saving that at the former place all assemblies are held at more rational hours; that the conversation may possibly be a little louder and more cheerful; and a guest is usually expected to ascend to the very top of the house to take his cloak off; that he is certain to see, at every dinner, an unusual amount of poultry on the table; and at every supper, at least two mighty bowls of hot stewed oysters, in any one of which a half-grown Duke of Clarence might be smothered easily.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Some of these examples fall under the double heading of full and partial tutti , and the student is reminded that the tutti is used essentially in forte and fortissimo , rarely in pianissimo and piano passages.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

From its upper end arises the recurrent branch which anastomoses in front of the knee with the articular branches of the popliteal artery.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

5—Bagdad coffee pot with crow-bill spout Before the advent of the Elford machine, and indeed, for two centuries thereafter, it was the common practise in the home to roast coffee in uncovered earthenware tart dishes, old pudding pans, and fry pans.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The coolness of the night air, however, had had its usual effect—the mental energy began to yield before its influence—and the confused perception which he no doubt then had of his perilous situation had assisted in hastening the catastrophe.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I took it to the hotel and sent it up, expecting to see young Mr Malone.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

This trait is unfortunately exhibited in the latter’s failure to defend himself when we make use of energetic investigation.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

"Now I understand everything," he said at last aloud in a husky tone.
— from Carnac's Folly, Volume 3. by Gilbert Parker

The rear-guard came up rapidly and essayed to deploy for defence, but the close pursuit of Humphreys’s corps forced its continued march for High Bridge, letting the pursuit in upon Ewell’s rear.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

This sorry fighter had been deeply pierced by the garrochas , and now, as he galloped clumsily 128 about the arena, in unavailing efforts to escape from his tormentors, his violent, foolish plunges made the dark blood flow the faster.
— from Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

Our influence upon Europe, like hers upon us, has grown with the shrinking of the earth's surface.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl

They are one, they interact upon each other in scores of ways.
— from Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry

The objects to be accomplished in the great campaign of 1864 are to drive in upon each other the two armies which resist our progress in Virginia and Georgia, and to compress the rebellion into the Southern Atlantic States.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

14) of a cylinder (about one inch long) of platinum gauze, which is fused to a glass tube and connected with a wire leading through the tube to some mercury, held in a small branch tube, fused into the main tube near its upper end.
— from The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. With Special Consideration of the Application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution. by Julius Stieglitz

Done it up, eh? Doesn’t look half so well, you know, but I suppose you take it out in honour and glory.
— from A Houseful of Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Let it be remembered, too, if anybody is scornful of these as vieux jeu , that they have never been really improved upon except by the very obvious and unoriginal method common in clever-silly days, of simply reversing some of them, of "turning platitudes topsy-turvy," as not the least gifted, or most old-fashioned, of novelists, Tourguenief, has it.
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury

But, be our experience joyous or sorrowful, the true end of it must ever be to deepen our own hearts that there may be in us ever a more catholic recognition of, and response to, the Eternal Love.
— from The Threshold Grace: Meditations in the Psalms by Percy C. (Percy Clough) Ainsworth