Before the Autobiography only one literary work of importance had been produced in this country—Cotton Mather's Magnalia , a church history of New England in a ponderous, stiff style.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Once he has made a cause his own, no other cause can survive the terror of his bushy eyebrows and his flaring face.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 by Various

Whether he thinks its formation was merely a chance hit or not, he does not say.
— from The Breath of Life by John Burroughs

The portions of the heavens which afford the most likely fields for discovery will naturally be those in the vicinity of where the sun has set at evening, or where he is about to rise in the early morning, all comets having of necessity to approach the sun more or less closely at their perihelion passage.
— from Through the Telescope by James Baikie

GERMANY: HAMBURG IN 1619 It was as the outcome of this resolution that the celebrated Hamburg bank was instituted in 1619, the later life of which was to become of so much importance for the monetary and commercial history of North Germany.
— from The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

Mrs. Johns persuaded Mrs. Avery to join in her plea and finally Miss Anthony could hold out no longer, but December 11 wrote to the latter: "I have been fully resolved all along not to go to Kansas during this first campaign, because I felt that my threescore and ten and two years added ought to excuse me from the fearful exposure; still, since you and dear Laura are left so deserted and will be so heartbroken if I stick to my resolve, I will say yes, tuck on my coat and mittens and start.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The lieutenant had learned one lesson—that he knew no more about handling the casco than did Larry, if as much, and, consequently, he offered no 33 more suggestions as to how to run the craft.
— from The Campaign of the Jungle; Or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer

Floyd Dell says it is paramountly a medium for entertainment, and that it is "not so much a clearing house of new ideas as of new people"!
— from Greenwich Village by Anna Alice Chapin

He stood still for a moment, and called his own name.
— from The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree