As for Tom’s Bible, though it had no annotations and helps in margin from learned commentators, still it had been embellished with certain way-marks and guide-boards of Tom’s own invention, and which helped him more than the most learned expositions could have done.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

/5/ "By the maritime law every contract of the master implies an hypothecation."
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

His favorite motto, " Loquendum est cum vulgo, sentiendum cum sapientibus " (the crowd may talk about it; the wise decide it), says Robinson, "expresses well their colloquial purpose, and was natural enough on the lips of one whose experience had been world wide."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The air without is impregnated with raindew moisture, life essence celestial, glistening on Dublin stone there under starshiny coelum.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Pepe Rey acercó una silla y apoyando en el mismo lecho el codo y en la mano
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

If they want me, let 'em come for me!
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy

Bassi had done his best, and when we met at supper he came up to me looking extremely confused, and gave me ten or twelve florins.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"Damn 'em," said the little man, "let 'em come up to my store and choose.
— from The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan by Frederick J. Tabor Frost

May life ever continue to appear to her
— from The Public Life of Queen Victoria by John McGilchrist

We had the utmost difficulty in making the brethren, whose information was of a most limited extent, comprehend from what country we came.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

Jengish Chokusu (Pik Pobedy) 7,439 m Natural resources: abundant hydroelectric potential; significant deposits of gold and rare earth metals; locally exploitable coal, oil, and natural gas; other deposits of nepheline, mercury, bismuth, lead, and zinc Land use: arable land: 7% permanent crops: 0% permanent pastures: 44% forests and woodland: 4% other: 45% (1993 est.) note: Kyrgyzstan has the world's largest natural growth walnut forest Irrigated land: 9,000 sq km (1993 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In view of this fact let the Church pray for prophetic spirits who shall in each generation rekindle the dying fires; and, apart from the influence of specially-gifted men, let each Church betake itself continually to the Fountain-head of spiritual life.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

I expected to begin on in the fall, as I knew I would be about a month late entering college.
— from College Men Without Money by Carl Brown Riddle

( Gu 192) = fæsten ± fæstan to fasten, make firm, ratify, establish , MkL, LkL : entrust, commit : ‘ fast ’ (‘ i-fast ’), abstain from food , A, Bl, Lcd ; CP: atone for ( by fasting ), Da 592. fæste (e) ‘ fast ,’ firmly, securely , BH, Bo ; Æ: straitly, strictly : heavily ( sleep ).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Hume tells us, in "The Abolitionists," that for a time Mr. Lincoln even considered setting Texas apart as a home for the negro.
— from The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences: Four Periods of American History by Hilary A. (Hilary Abner) Herbert