Only they sing as well as they possibly can, not only because they love it, but because if they don’t they will be dropped on to, and if they continue not singing their best, will lose their place which they have so hardly won.
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

One hundred seventy of these are no longer in barracks but in the tunnel in Grunertstrasse under the Essen-Mülheim railway line.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various

The futility of the sect in the New World was due not wholly to its communal form of organization, but is to be attributed as well to the fact that the Labadists migrated in obedience to no high and lofty impulse, but because in their nomadic passage from place to place, under the pressure of religious and civil proscription, due in most cases to acts of insubordination, there seemed no place remaining for them except the shores of the New World.
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts

Henry was modest, but there are limits to modesty, and more than once in the course of that amazing and endless Tuesday Henry had a narrow escape of dragging Love in Babylon bodily into the miscellaneous conversation of the office.
— from A Great Man: A Frolic by Arnold Bennett

It is a thing of life—and life cannot be bounded by words, lest it be buried in the tomb of a hasty definition.
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

Looks like it been bored in tha’ plates, Chief.”
— from The Radio Detectives Under the Sea by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

In most historical attempts at government by the people it has been recognized that legislation is better balanced if there are two chambers in the law-making body, one directly elected by the people, the other indirectly chosen and representing important vested interests that are likely to make its members conservative.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

On the 15th is the Feast of Tabernacles, on which the Jews are expected to live in booths, but in this country the rule is not strictly observed.
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Legislation therefore that seeks suddenly to exact of the public a greater capacity for self-restraint than it is capable of, cannot but prove ineffectual; and ineffectual legislation is bad, because it tends to bring legislation into contempt.
— from Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly

" "I don't take sides, for I live in both, but I think business facilities in Minneapolis are greater.
— from Chester Rand; or, The New Path to Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.