At this point I think I hear some of my better educated readers exclaim, "How could you in Flatland know anything about angles and degrees, or minutes?
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Happily such occurrences must be exceedingly rare, especially in this country, where the interval between death and burial is considerable, and the fear is almost a groundless one.
— from Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb

Anyhow, it's no robbery for me to have what has been mine by every right except the accident of being born after him.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

Perhaps a more accurate though less finished rendering of these opening verses might be: Emerald river, emerald river, Stained with slaughter’s evil cheer, ’Twixt Bermeja and thy meadows Perished many a cavalier.
— from Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

I could never, in spite of my best efforts, recover either them or the missing funds.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger

As this point I think I hear some of my better educated readers exclaim, "How could you in Flatland know anything about angles and degrees, or minutes?
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott

They may be either round, elliptical, or in the form of a streak.
— from Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings by William F. (William Frederick) Denning

Had the sculptor been representing a goddess he would have concealed this flatness in some way or other, or selected a position which did not cause it, for the conventional art—beauty must be equally rounded everywhere.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies