State any Disjunctive Syllogism, and change it (1) into a Hypothetical, (2) into a Categorical; and discuss the loss or gain, in cogency or significance involved in this process.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

A line of gendarmes, in capes of vivid red, march in advance to clear the way.
— from Things seen in Spain by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

After dinner, leaving our gipsies in charge of the tents, we retired to the mountain, to enjoy some quietude, and contemplation.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

A public speaker, who rises in the House of Commons, with pedantry prepense to quote Latin or Greek, is coughed or laughed down; but the beautiful unpremeditated classical allusions of Burke or Sheridan, sometimes conveyed in a single word, seize the imagination irresistibly.
— from Practical Education, Volume II by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

[50] One of the great laws of God is, “Children, obey your parents.”
— from The Boyhood of Jesus by Anonymous

And I say unto you that no calumny is able to prevail against the Light of God; it can only result in causing it to be more universally recognized.
— from Paris Talks by `Abdu'l-Bahá

[50] One of the great laws of God is, "Children, obey your parents."
— from The Boyhood of Jesus by Anonymous

I must brazen it out here; and the worst of it is, that I feel that a look of guilt is creeping over me.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope