Sixteen railroads meet in Minneapolis, and sixty-five passenger trains arrive and depart daily.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

When a man is making a speech and you are to follow him don't jot down notes to speak from, jot down PICTURES.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Romana pubes, sedato tandem pavore, postquam ex tam turbido die serena et tranquilla lux rediit, ubi vacuam sedem regiam vidit, etsi satis credebat patribus, qui proxumi steterant, sublimem raptum procella, tamen velut 10 orbitatis metu icta maestum aliquamdiu silentium obtinuit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Minds of this rare species see things too much in masses, and seldom, if ever, have a good temper.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

The first arrow he struck into the center ring, but the second missed its mark, and smote the black; the last arrow was tipped with luck, for it smote the very center of the clout, upon the black spot that marked it.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

But perhaps, as the winner of a duel against the invincible Odal ... or even as a martyr ... I may accomplish something useful."
— from The Dueling Machine by Ben Bova

The bodily mask Is mine, and sometimes, dull as clay, it sleeps With old Musæus.
— from Collected Poems: Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

I had for a long time employed myself in making a shelving descent to the sea, on the most secure part of the rock, intending that it should be a landing place for a boat, in case any ship should come near enough to send one to our rescue.
— from The Little Savage by Frederick Marryat

Myself I marvel, and scarce though the deed is done can I believe it possible.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

I don't make the mistake of blaming a few individuals for the evils of modern industrial society, and on the other hand you mustn't blame individuals for the discomforts of what you call the reform movement, for that movement is merely a symptom—a symptom of a disease due to a change in the structure of society.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

In our own country the Ordnance Department, which is the trial court before which all military inventions must appear, scouted the idea of usefulness of machine guns even after war was declared, and adhered to the view that machine guns, in the very nature of things, could never be useful except in the defense of fortified positions; that they never could be brought up on the battlefield, nor used if they were brought up.
— from History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition by John H. (John Henry) Parker

This seemed to his eyes to make it marked and separate among a thousand.
— from Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope

Well, I will tell thee all I saw:—I came Unto the ancient tomb that holds our sire; And from the topmost mound I marked a stream Of milk fresh-flowing, and his resting place Ringed round with garlands of all flowers that blow.
— from The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles