The Admiralty Enquiry on the outbreak of scurvy in the Arctic Expedition of 1875 reported that a large ration of meat is necessary to afford p
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

But a woman is always and everywhere reduced to obtaining this mastery indirectly , namely, through a man; and whatever direct mastery she may have is entirely confined to him.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

He writes as the idealist, describing men not as they are but as he thinks they should be; he has no humor, and his mission is not to amuse but to reform.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The ending -most is not the adverb most .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

This often happens between two friends of the same sex, who are much associated in their daily life: and it would be a common, if not the commonest, case in marriage, did not the totally different bringing-up of the two sexes make it next to an impossibility to form a really well-assorted union.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

856. 169 d -170 c is a digression on the value of myths, which the wise man is not to accept without an allegorising interpretation; cf.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

I am glad mine is not there, and I hope it may not go there, yet awhile.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Pr. Was der Socialismus will, ist nicht Eigenthum aufheben, sondern im Gegentheile individuelles Eigenthum, auf die Arbeit gegründetes Eigenthum erst einführen —What Socialism means is not to abolish property, but, on the contrary, to establish individual property, property founded on labour.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Her ability to take the ground upright is a source of gratification to the artistic members of her crew; neither flowing nor ebbing tide, nor a shift of wind, makes it necessary to alter the positions of the sketching-seats, easels are a convenience that may be comfortably indulged in, and then the operations of the steward are not disturbed.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

And as the King started, Yogeshwara said again: O King, there are circumstances, in which sex makes all the difference between wisdom and folly: and cases, in which a woman, just because she is a woman, will make a more invincible negotiator than all the ministers, from Dhritaráshtra[ 13 ] down, that ever lived.
— from A Mine of Faults by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

Timid and ignorant men are alarmed at the movement; but that there is such a movement is notorious to all the world.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

His method is not to argue, but to utter deep, simple propositions which convince by their own light.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

Amen, so I had mine: is not that a good word?
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9] by William Shakespeare

Never before had she mentioned its name to a living soul.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

Not that there was any danger or rather only just enough to make it necessary to assure each other that there was none.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery by John Galsworthy

It is the impending internationalism, or the idea of internationalism now so vividly put before us all, that most incites new thought about education, and about all the means of controlling the ideas and feelings of the people.
— from The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G. E. (George Everett) Partridge

One morning I noticed that a cabbage plant was left standing unchanged.
— from Bill Nye's Red Book New Edition by Bill Nye