You now have a skeleton or outline of your address that in its polished form might serve either as the brief, or manuscript notes, for the speech or as the guide-outline which you will expand into the written address, if written it is to be.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Babbitt grew expansive, and told Rogers about the art of writing; he gave a bellboy a quarter to fetch a morning newspaper from the lobby, and sent to Tinka a post-card: “Papa wishes you were here to bat round with him.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Among my friends in the House I must not forget Mr. Hamilton, before mentioned, who was then returned from England, and had a seat in it.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

But this matters nothing, for the same will be done next year, the same the coming century, since it has always been the custom.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

And when he had killed him in a manner not fit to be told, Oroites impaled his body: and of those who accompanied him, as many as were Samians he released, bidding them be grateful to him that they were free men; but all those of his company who were either allies or servants, he held in the estimation of slaves and kept them.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

And another time she dropped on the pavement of the cloister a confession written on a sheet of paper so that she might not forget its items: “Father, I accuse myself of being an adulteress.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

A gentleman will never parade his superiority in these accomplishments, still less boast of it, but rather, that the others may not feel their inferiority, he will keep considerably within his powers.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Magdalena, d Santa Marta, t & m n Full, solid, blue, washed bean, making a fancy roast, but too acid to be used straight.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Long before the idea of tracery had suggested itself to the minds either of Venetian or any other architects, it had, of course, been necessary to provide protection for galleries, edges of roofs, &c.; and the most natural form in which such protection could be obtained 246 was that of a horizontal bar or hand-rail, sustained upon short shafts or balusters, as in Fig.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

In regard to the mangosteens we must not forget that, while the bark is given because of the amount of tannin it contains, the composition of the pulp is very different.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

But as a Poet, that’s no Scholar, makes Vulgarity his whiffler, and so takes Passage with ease and state thro’ both sides ’press Of pageant-seers: or, as Scholars please, That are no Poets, more than Poets learn’d, Since their art solely is by souls discern’d, (The others’ falls within the common sense, And sheds, like common light, her influence): So, were your Play no Poem, but a thing That every cobbler to his patch might sing; A rout of nifles, like the multitude, With no one limb of any art endued, Like would to like, and praise you: but because Your poem only hath by us applause; Renews the Golden Age, and holds through all The holy laws of homely Pastoral, Where flowers, and founts, and nymphs, and semi-gods, And all the Graces, find their old abodes; Where poets flourish but in endless verse, And meadows nothing-fit for purchasers: This Iron Age, that eats itself, will never Bite at your Golden World, that others ever Loved as itself.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Secondly, Modes not false cannot be false in reference to essences of things.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

If we wish to see what work we or others are called to do, we must not forget to look back to the ancient rock from whence we are hewn, and the deep pit from whence we are digged.
— from A Record of St. Cybi's Church, Holyhead and the Sermon preached after its Restoration, 1879 by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

NA male: NA female: NA (2008 est.)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I write in this manner, not from petulance, but from the analogy of the yellow fever, where this very game I am now describing, has so often been played with success in the south of Europe; and will be played off again, for so long as lucrative boards of health and gainful quarantine establishments, with extensive influence and patronage, shall continue to be resorted to for protection against a non-existent—an impossible contagion.
— from Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by J. (James) Gillkrest

Before setting out, we each of us cut a long pointed stick—the most ready weapon we could manufacture; not for defence, for it would be useless against the arms of the natives, should any exist on the island, but to enable us to kill any animals we might meet with, as also to assist us in getting over any rough ground, or to beat down the brushwood should we meet with forests through which we might have to force our way.
— from Twice Lost by William Henry Giles Kingston

(Museo Nazionale, Florence.)
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith