Why one should not cut one's salad in small pieces if one wants to, makes little sense, unless one wants to cut up a whole plateful and make the plate messy!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Let us at last break the fatal charm which has too long seduced us from the paths of felicity and prosperity.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

He spread these on the ground in the form of a human being and placed the soul of No-cha in this lotus skeleton, uttering magic incantations the while.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

In the light shed upon them by the preliminary biography, they form, as one might say, its justification and natural sequel.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

"All that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our Lord shew us" Our Lord God shewed two manner of secret things.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The house is banked in with rolling clouds, which rise now and then to show the dreary curves of the moor, with thin, silver veins upon the sides of the hills, and the distant boulders gleaming where the light strikes upon their wet faces.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is lawful of two evils of sufferings to chuse the least; where both come in the election, as in the cases forementioned, and in a man throwing of his goods overboard in a storm; these and the like are deeds in the present exigent voluntary and rational, being upon deliberation and choice, where the least evil is chosen under the notion of good, yea of the best that can be in the present case, and accordingly the will is determined, and meets and closes with its proper object; or one of them only be proposed to be submitted to, but another lesser evil of suffering is in a man's power to chuse and propose, for purchasing his immunity from a greater; which is not imposed nor exacted of him, either by a wicked law, or for wicked ends declared, but voluntarily offered; as in the case of parting with some money to a robber or murderer to save the life, when he is seeking only the life; as the ten men that were going to the house of the Lord said unto Ishmael, "Slay us not for we have treasures in the field," for which he "forbare and slew them not," Jer. xli.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

e Lord said unto me, "Wait for the man that trembles at the Word, and iss not able to speak, and it will be a sign unto you,"' and a fery goot minister he wass, and made the hypocrites in Zion to be afraid."
— from Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren

At half-past six, the very hour of departure, Mr. Fogg and Aouda, followed by Passepartout, who in his hurry had retained his wings, and nose six feet long, stepped upon the American steamer.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Mounting to the roofs of the houses, they hurled down large stones upon the heads of the cavaliers with a force which would often tumble them from their saddles.
— from History of the Indians, of North and South America by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Mr. Noakes looked annoyed, and stiffened his long, straight upper lip.
— from Bright Ideas: A Record of Invention and Misinvention by Herbert Strang

LOOSE, solution; upshot, issue; release of an arrow. LOSE, give over, desist from; waste.
— from Cynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love by Ben Jonson

He was silent for a little, stirring up sparks and smoke.
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

Sliver’s glance had gone to Lee, scrambling up the steep face of the ridge, leading her horse.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker

He had so arranged it that there should be little time for that leave-taking, and already the carriage stood at the steps of Guessens, with his luggage strapped upon the roof and his servant waiting at the door.
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason