As to my other diamonds, either changed in form or acquired and collected by myself, I destine them for my four children by the King.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

There are, however, many cases in which, though our power of producing the phenomenon is complete, the Method of Difference either cannot be made available at all, or not without a previous employment of the Method of Agreement.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

The whole ground before Sebastopol was, Gordon wrote, "one great graveyard of men, freshly made mounds of dark earth covering English, French, and Russians.
— from The Story of General Gordon by Jean Lang

[711] These and many other dangerous experiments could easily be undertaken by needy demagogues with fantastic ideas, if the supervision of municipalities by the national Government were abolished.
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

Dr. Meyers followed in 1873, and many other Dutch enthusiasts came after him during the next few years.
— from The Savage South Seas by E. Way (Ernest Way) Elkington

[16] others, stood out, individual and conspicuous, by qualities so much in advance of those of all the men with whom he acted, that no misfortune or disaster ever caused him to be confounded with them, or included in the most hasty general censure.
— from Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

And yet, the woman who positively bewitched, one after another, so many of Delacroix' eminent contemporaries, Jules Sandeau, Alfred de Musset, Michel de Bourges, Chopin, Pierre Leroux, Cabet, Lammenais, etc., had no power over him.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

9000 250 Beaver, marten, gray fox, mink, muskrat, otter, deer, elk, &c.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

The harness-maker does not remember any one of the name of Drevenoff, and is quite sure that no young man of the description which you gave me of Drevenoff ever came there.
— from Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent by John Thomas McIntyre