She introduced dry technicalities of science little by little, making every subject so real that I could not help remembering what she taught.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The Hindu year is divided into six seasons of two months each, spring, summer, rains, autumn, winter, and dews.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Qua quid in re ab infantibus differunt, quibus mens et sensus sine ratione inest, quicquid sese his offert volupe est.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I’d got kidnapped en sole down de river, en dey made me up 235 twenty dollahs en give it to me, en Sally she rigged me out wid good clo’es, en when I got here I went straight to whah you used to wuz, en den I come to dis house, en dey say you’s away but ’spected back every day; so I didn’t dast to go down de river to Dawson’s, ’ca’se I might miss you.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

She realised that during his life he had not been properly appreciated; the full extent of his powers, the supreme quality of his goodness, had been necessarily concealed; but death had removed the need of barriers, and now her husband, in his magnificent entirety, should stand revealed to all.
— from Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey

"Oh, let me explain," she said, revolting at his manner.
— from The Salamander by Owen Johnson

The deed was so drafted that it could not be charged; the capital could not be touched, excepting the case of male offspring who, after their mother's death, would divide it on their respective twenty-fifth birthdays; as she distrusted her own sex and perhaps still more the stock from which the girls might spring, she bound their proportion in perpetuity; failing offspring she provided that, following on his wife's decease, Mr Edward Smith should receive one fifth of the capital, four fifths reverting to herself.
— from A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George

The character of the Wittenberg Professor is, however, such that we may expect some surprising revelations.
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar