As to Cicero, his works that are most useful to my design are they that treat of manners and rules of our life.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I know it is so, and you know that it is true of all the world; and it is just as important to have customers educated, intelligent, moral, and rich, out of Liverpool as it is in Liverpool.
— from Practical Argumentation by George K. (George Kynett) Pattee

For hours they travelled, alternately at a trot and a walk, through the pretty, rolling country of Saline County, now passing among stretches of forest, gay with the foliage of Autumn, and again moving across reaches of open land, dotted here and there with little farms, most of them deserted and falling to decay.
— from With Sully into the Sioux Land by Joseph Mills Hanson

As I climbed out, the rectangle of entry afforded me a revelation of our legs.
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse

The word is too modern, however, for our classical English literature, or for that most authentic record of our language, the Dictionary of Dr. Johnson, when it first saw the light in 1755.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

There was even a false set of footlights to complete the masquerade; a row of oil lamps with tin reflectors.
— from The Book of Susan: A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

There was a similar structure in the old city of Mexico, and remains of one like it are found at Mayapan.
— from Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin

With such a voyage, if it had been real, there should have been published at least an itinerary, and most of the Jesuits were capable enough to have made a rough observation of longitude and latitude, in the country where they resided, for near one hundred years.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

He makes a romance out of love for his father and mother, and his affection for his sweetheart is an extravagant poem.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

Beside the river's tranquil flood The dark and low-walled dwellings stood, Where many a rood of open land Stretched up and down on either hand, With corn-leaves waving freshly green The thick and blackened stumps between.
— from The Vaudois Teacher, and other poems Part 1 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier