The First History of England The work most important to us is the Ecclesiastical History of the English People .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Recent work by Hart, Steenbock and Ellis gives evidence that “summer pasture milk is much richer in this nutritive factor than dry feed milk or winter produced milk, involving the use in the ration of corn silage or sugar mangels.”
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

this cost me some moments of uneasiness, her cargo was of much importance to us in our present advanced situation—We proceeded on six miles and came too on the lower side of the entrance of the little Missouri on the Lard shore in a fine plain where we determined to spend the day for the purpose of celestial observation.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

[Pg xxxv] as it lies within the reach of my powers to drag from the ravening maw of time, the names of the sculptors, painters, and architects, who, from Cimabue to the present day, have been of some notable excellence in Italy, and desiring that this my labour may be no less useful than it has been pleasant to me in the undertaking, it appears to me necessary, before we come to the history, to make as briefly as may be an introduction to these three arts, wherein those were valiant of whom I am to write the Lives, to the end that every gracious spirit may first learn the most notable things in their professions, and afterwards may be able with greater pleasure and benefit to see clearly in what they were different among themselves, and how great adornment and convenience they give to their countries and to all who wish to avail themselves of their industry and knowledge.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

For I think that the enemy, being, as they are, much inferior to us in infantry, will not dare to pass the night near us, and therefore they will permit the army to cross the ford with ease at daybreak.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

He that loves not his wife nor his friend so well as to prolong his life for them, but will obstinately die, is too delicate and too effeminate: the soul must impose this upon itself, when the utility of our friends so requires; we must sometimes lend ourselves to our friends, and when we would die for ourselves must break that resolution for them.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But it appears as this blind and unconscious striving in the whole of unorganised nature, in all those original forces of which it is the work of physics and chemistry to discover and to study the laws, and each of which manifests itself to us in millions of phenomena which are exactly similar and regular, and show no trace of individual character, but are mere multiplicity through space and time, i.e. , through the principium individuationis , as a picture is multiplied through the facets of a glass.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

And thus our Mother is to us in diverse manners working: in whom our parts are kept undisparted.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

"Then, Raoul, you must run away with me in spite of myself; is that understood?" "I shall be here at twelve to-morrow night; I shall keep my promise, whatever happens.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Ag ákung kwarta nahilambígit sa tindáhan, My money is tied up in the store.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When I said that patience had had her perfect work, it was my intention to unfold in short, stinging sentences my plans as to future dealings with the delinquent.
— from The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland

The only good man in this unfortunate island of Seriphus appears to have been the fisherman.
— from A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The story of the meeting is told us in the twenty-first chapter of this book.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1 by George Thomas Stokes

One thing that astonishes me is the utter ignorance of the people of what is going on outside respecting Turkish affairs, and the action, if any, of the diplomatists.
— from Cities of the Dawn Naples - Athens - Pompeii - Constantinople - Smyrna - Jaffa - Jerusalem - Alexandria - Cairo - Marseilles - Avignon - Lyons - Dijon by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Primary, typical, standard money is the unit in which the value of the money of a country is expressed, no matter what its form is; the standard is a certain weight and fineness of a particular metal.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

The familiar style , or mode, is that used in common conversation; as, you see , he fears .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

We may I think urge, in the case of cruelty, that its intrinsic odiousness is equally great, whether the pain contemplated really exists or is purely imaginary.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

"I shot a slipper in the air," as the poet sings, and in the morning it turns up in the most impossible quarters, and where you least expect it.
— from Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

England would return to her habitual spoliations, would re-establish that state precisely the most beneficial to herself, the most injurious to us: infinitely better to her than peace on fair terms, for then the opportunity would be lost of feeding and enriching her navy at our expense; better than war, as the numerous prizes brought into her ports of late very clearly prove.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress