To the Editor of the Westminster Gazette : Sir—The interview published in your columns today hardly merits a reply, because of the indifference to suffering manifested.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Every mile of this "single track" was so delicate, that one man could in a minute have broken or moved a rail, but our trains usually carried along the tools and means to repair such a break.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

"Therefore it is not gaining or multiplying of this thing or that which advantageth thee, but rather the despising it and cutting it by the root out of thy heart; which thou must not only understand of money and riches, but of the desire after honour and vain praise, things which all pass away with the world.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

For it does not represent the more advanced religious beliefs of the priestly class, but is a collection of the most popular spells current among the masses, who always preserve more primitive notions with regard to demoniac powers.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

I remember the saying of a wise man at Rome: “Beware of the man of one book.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

( a. ) -tōr- ( -sōr- ), in the present sense, often denotes one who makes a regular business of the action of the root or verb.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

"There are curaçoa, chartreuse, pepperwick, mangostino, and Russian brandy on the side-board," suggested a third.
— from The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope

Merchants and Roumanian Brethren of the Mountains!
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

Why the plain matter-of-fact is, that every parish officer thinks he has a right to make a round bill on the hamlet, during his year of power.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

This pipe may be coiled into a circle and make a round burner, or the holes may all come at the end, which is arranged to spread the gas into a disc shape.
— from Mechanical Devices in the Home by Edith Allen

A Scotch fellow-passenger, who had maintained a sullen reserve throughout the voyage, which ought to have placed me on my guard against him, had attached himself to me during our troubles at the Custom-House, and now joined with us all in loud rebuke of the sluggish motions and rude behavior of the officers.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Within the confined space of the Tank the noise of the motors and rapid bark of the quickfirers and the metallic rattle of the maxims muffled all other sounds from without; yet Ralph caught the sudden roar of the inimitable British cheer as the Tommies swarmed over the top.
— from To the Fore with the Tanks! by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman