I thought that one pretty face was as good as another pretty face to them; and that when number one with blue eyes and fair hair died, they had only to look out for number two, with dark eyes and black hair, by way of variety.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

so the Lord of Fire, nor slacker in his hours than she, rises from his soft couch to the work of his smithy.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

At the poles you'll see the consequences of this phenomenon, and through this law of farseeing nature, you'll understand why water can freeze only at the surface!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

True love is still the same; the torrid zones, / And those more rigid ones, / It must not know; / For love grown cold or hot / Is lust or friendship, not / The thing we show.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

il cap o gennerale mando indrieto la naue victoria fina aL principio deL ſtreto auedere ſe ella era iui et non trouandola meteſſe vna bandera in cima de alguno mõticello cõ vna letera in vna pigniatella ficada in tera apreſſo la bandera acio vedendola trouaſſeno la lr̃a et ſapaſſeno lo viagio q̃ faceuamo ꝓ che cuſſi era dato le ordine fra noi
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

My parties were again despatched to resume their labours over fields now familiar to them.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

There are a lot of false notions about courage and bravery and grit that read well in print, but fail miserably in practice, and long hikes for boys is one of the most glaring of these notions.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Gussie had always been one of those dreamy, soulful birds—you can't shut yourself up in the country and live only for newts, if you're not—and I could see no reason why, if he could somehow be induced to get the low, burning words off his chest, he and the Bassett shouldn't hit it off like ham and eggs.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Here is a list of four names, and I will accuse these four persons before the Council of Ten, if Steffani should deny having my daughter in his possession.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A DEVOTED WORKER FOR THE POOR, THE SICK, AND THE SORROWFUL, THIS BRIEF RECORD OF AN HEROIC LIFE IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED For the material used in this little book I am chiefly indebted to Sarah A. Tooley's "Life of Florence Nightingale," and to Kinglake's "Invasion of the Crimea."
— from Florence Nightingale, the Angel of the Crimea: A Story for Young People by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

He had gone to the North church every Sunday for a long time now, neither for love of Fergus, nor dislike to Mr. Sclater, but for the sake of seeing his lost friend: had he not lost her when she turned from Donal to Fergus?
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

"But I think I shall like them very much too before long, for I like to watch the butterflies come out, and I like to keep looking out for new caterpillars.
— from Ruby at School by Paull, George A., Mrs.

For to Bessie, with her inborn racial love of family, nothing was so much to be pitied as the unfortunates who found shelter there.
— from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

This transformer has a low degree of hysteresis; and its efficiency for very small loads or for no load is superior to that of the closed magnetic circuit transformer. Fig.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

For I should lose all countenance Throughout the pleasant land of France Nay, rather, facing great and small, I’ll smite amain with Durandal, Until the blade, with blood that’s spilt, Is crimson to the golden hilt.’
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by François Guizot

[1] "Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche." Edited by Dr. Oscar Levy.
— from The Critical Game by John Albert Macy

By means of further genuflections, supplications, and wearisome persistency, Charles de Buonaparte at last obtained favor not only for Lucien, but for Joseph also.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 1 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

Look out for next Sunday’s number!”
— from Other People's Money by Emile Gaboriau