Under date of November 27, Judge Selden wrote her: "I suppose the commissioner will, as a matter of course, hold you for trial at the circuit court, whatever your rights may be in the matter.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

I fancy that he must be a wise man, and seeing that I am the reverse of a wise man, he has found me out, and is going to accuse me of corrupting his young friends.
— from Euthyphro by Plato

“The mother, as in other species of the monkey order, carries her young on her back.
— from Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series Life in the Llanos of Venezuela by Ramón Páez

At the first shot Dutchy sank upon the table, overturning his mug of coffee, his yellow mop of hair dabbling in his plate of mush.
— from Love of Life, and Other Stories by Jack London

"I meant, of course, had you any father?
— from Nancy: A Novel by Rhoda Broughton

What new means of communication have you in your power?
— from Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

Well, ‘my own countrymen’ have yielded up hundreds of lives in satisfaction since then.”
— from John Ames, Native Commissioner: A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford

Add to these womanly points a habit of speech as gentle as the expression of the face; as gentle, too, as the blue eyes with their Turkish eyelids, and you will readily understand how it was that the minister occasionally called his young secretary Mademoiselle de La Briere.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

An unsurpassed master of counterpoint, he yet depended much upon simpler and more condensed harmonic movements.
— from Music in the History of the Western Church With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples by Edward Dickinson