At this moment, I deem it safe to say, it is properly engrossing more minds in this country than any other subject now before the American people.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

If there be no end to avarice and ambition, there is doubtless no more in desire; it still lives after satiety; and ‘tis impossible to prescribe either constant satisfaction or end; it ever goes beyond its possession.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The punishment of the fustuarium is assigned also to any one committing theft in the camp, or bearing false witness: as also to any one who in full manhood is detected in shameful immorality: or to any one who has been thrice punished for the same offence.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

“When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.'
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The first woman to whom a man is drawn, if she is really a woman—that is to say, if she appears to him amid the splendid accessories that form a necessary background to life in the world of Paris—will never have a rival.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Meantime Ingild died in Sweden, leaving only a very little son, Ring, whom he had by the sister of Harald.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Quizás una de las formas más insidiosa de imitación, sea la de la apropiación sin mención del origen de las ideas, de conceptos, de fórmulas, etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The little duchy of Milan is divided into six provinces, in each of which there is a different system of taxation, with regard to several different sorts of consumable goods.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In another place we shall have to examine this more in detail; it suffices for the present to have drawn attention to the indubitable existence of this progression.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Two witnesses in a court of law, while they agree in the main, invariably differ in some particulars.
— from Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude

This was the ancient symbol of the Cambrian Principality, with the significant motto, Ich dien , "I serve."
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant

Notwithstanding our limitations, the date of the birth-time of our geological era is the most important date in Science.
— from The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly

GRUITHUISEN.—This ring-plain, 10 miles in diameter, is situated on the Mare Imbrium on the N.E. of Delisle.
— from The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

Well, no, I mean—I shouldn't ejaculate, but—oh, you know what I mean——" "I do," I said.
— from A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan

All can feel the hardship of his case, and the sympathy for him goes a great way.” “Still this would only serve to protract matters—they 'd bring another action.” “Of course they would, and Kelson has money!” “I declare I see no benefit in continuing a hopeless contest.” “Don't be hopeless then, that's the remedy.” Bramleigh made a slight gesture of impatience, and slight as it was, Sedley observed it.
— from The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

Concretions are of all sizes, from those of microscopic smallness in some oölitic limestones up to those twenty-five feet or more in diameter in some sandstones.
— from Common Minerals and Rocks by William O. (William Otis) Crosby

Although it is the political capital of the most important department in southern Peru, it had in 1911 only one hospital—a semi-public, non-sectarian organization on the west of the city, next door to the largest cemetery.
— from Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham