To which I can give no other kind of answer, but that which is given to those that urge the Scripture in like manner against the opinion of the motion of the Earth.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The rattling trumpet of the elephant, the drum of the gorilla, the scream of the lion, the chattering of countless apes, the yells of myriads of cockatoos, the growls of bears, the sobs of walri, 18 the whistle of rhinocerotes, combined to make a strange pandemonium—strange, I call it, because the zoological learning I had picked up while with Nora at Oxford, informed me at once that the variety of roars, screams, grunts, skreeks, whirrings, which our footsteps seemed to awake in every kind of animal, bird, and insect, could be paralleled only in the pages of the 'Swiss Family Robinson.'
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

The tomb inside the rails near the altar belongs to one of the knights of Audley, but I have never taken the trouble to remember his achievements.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I am not the keeper of a breeding establishment.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

“And couldn't she ask Uncle Pumblechook if he knew of a boy to go and play there?
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Moreover, according to the avowal of Spencer and Gillen, there are some churinga among the Arunta which are made by the old men of the group, to the knowledge of and before the eyes of all; [340] these obviously do not come from the great ancestors.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

It takes the life of a bad king or a bad minister, as if the one and the other were dangerous wild beasts to be shot at the first opportunity.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

This latter I do more believe than the other, it being very wise in her to do it, and save all she hath, besides easing the King and kingdom of a burden and reproach.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Now as he made himself friends among the men of power every where, by the kind offices he did them, and the hospitable manner that he treated them; so did he contract the greatest friendship with the king of Arabia, by marrying his relation; insomuch that when he made war with Aristobulus, he sent and intrusted his children with him.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

To such persons there is a kind of association between what is easy and what is wrong on the one hand, and between what is difficult and what is right on the other.
— from Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Some Problems for Parents Concerning Punishment, Reasoning, Lies, Ideals and Ambitions, Fear, Work and Play, Imagination, Social Activities, Obedience, Adolescence, Will, Heredity by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg

"But, first, I am afraid that I will have to ask you to step out here a moment, into the other part of the cave, always remembering that if you make any kind of a break, down you go with a cracked skull;" and Nick leaned forward and loosened the cords around his ankles.
— from A Woman at Bay; Or, A Fiend in Skirts by Nicholas (House name) Carter

It is a fact, and one of deep logical import, and tending to corroborate the conclusion of some of the writers cited above, who tell us the Christian Gospels were first composed by the Essenes; that the language in which those Gospels were originally written was Greek, the language in which the Alexandrian Essenes always wrote, while the evangelical writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, being illiterate fishermen, could have had no knowledge of any but the Jewish, their own mother-tongue,—at least it is susceptible of satisfactory proof that they never wrote in any other language.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

This kind of a bed will require remaking every day.
— from Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude Harris Miller

Thus it was, that just as he was about to commence getting out these great requisites from new planks, he came across a stem, stern-frame, and keel of a boat, that was intended to be eighteen feet long.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

Nothing catches the eye more quickly, or looks more slovenly, than the ends of the traces sticking out a foot beyond the keepers, or a belly-band strap dangling loose underneath the horse.
— from Hints on Driving by C. Morley (Charles Lewis William Morley) Knight

XXXVI Orlando disembarks, with his array, His kinsman Olivier and Brandimart; Who on the side which fronts the eastern ray, Encamp them, and not haply without art.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

He isn't that kind of a boy."
— from Robert Coverdale's Struggle; Or, on the Wave of Success by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

They are like fatted beasts, full of gluttony and sensuality, and ready to kill one another by reason of their insatiable lust; for they are not filled with true being, and their vessel is leaky (Gorgias).
— from The Republic by Plato

I do not marvel that the world is clad in mystery, to them he is an unknown God; they cannot tell where he dwells nor how he lives, nor what kind of a being he is in appearance or character.
— from The Mormon Doctrine of Deity: The Roberts-Van Der Donckt Discussion To which is added a discourse, Jesus Christ, the revelation of God; also a collection of authoritative Mormon utterances on the being and nature of God by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts