The well known answer is: let some small object fall on his lap; the woman will spread her limbs apart because she is accustomed to wear a dress in which she catches the object; the man will bring his limbs together because he wears trousers and is able to catch the object only in this way.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

He is very happy indeed at the kindergarten, and is learning something every day.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Gramercy, said the king, as I live, Sir Lambegus, I shall deserve it.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

We shall drink in all knowledge at its living source—unmingled with error or doubt.
— from The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux

The headman of the Pallans is, in the Madura country, called Kudumban, and he is assisted by a Kālādi, and, in large settlements, by a caste messenger entitled Vāriyan, who summons people to attend council-meetings, festivals, marriages and funerals.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Yugoslavia was born in sin, in the dictatorship of King Alexander I (later slain in France in 1934).
— from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin

But hang me if I know anything I like so well as the Twa Dogs .
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson

"The surface of this metal, which was of cast iron, placed on each side of the keel, and in long scarphs of iron plates situated towards the stem and 272 stern-post and the water line, appeared to have been about the 1-30th part of the surface of the copper, instead of the 1-250th part as now practised.
— from The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ayrton Paris