‘I have thowt of it oftentimes, but I can’t awize myself of it, no matters.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Society offered the profile of a long, straggling caravan, stretching loosely towards the prairies, its few score of leaders far in advance and its millions of immigrants, negroes, and Indians far in the rear, somewhere in archaic time.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Not much of it now, except among the poor.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

But what gesticulation alone really conveys to me is the essential matter—be it of a moral or intellectual nature—of the whole conversation in abstracto .
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Is there any Merit in being the Messenger of ill News?
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

From the point of view of this history, these will come most prominently and most often into notice; but as other States exercised a powerful influence upon the course of events, and our aim is not merely naval history but an appreciation of the effect of naval and commercial power upon the course of general history, it is necessary to state shortly the condition of the rest of Europe.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

And let me, my dear Sir, with a grateful heart let me own, I never before passed half an hour in such perfect felicity.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

By [Pg 352] means of its noble instincts it abandons its privileges, and owing to its refined and excessive culture, it takes an interest in the people, the weak, the poor, and the poetry of the lowly, etc. 939.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Philistines had placed it in a new cart, and the men of Israel now did the same.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

It is the usual frailty of our sex to be fond of flattery Lovers are not criminal in the estimation of one another Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred Much is forgiven to a king Necessity is said to be the mother of invention Never approached any other man near enough to know a difference Not to repose too much confidence in our friends Parliament aided the King to expel the Jesuits from France Prefer truth to embellishment Rather out of contempt, and because it was good policy Situated as I was betwixt fear and hope The pretended reformed religion The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day The record of the war is as the smoke of a furnace There is too much of it for earnest, and not enough for jest Those who have given offence to hate the offended party To embellish my story I have neither leisure nor ability Troubles might not be lasting Young girls seldom take much notice of children
— from Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Complete by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France

If instead of the whole protoplasm of the cell arranging itself into one mass, it divides into several, or if portions only of the protoplasm become marked out into new cells, in each case accompanied by rounding off and contraction, the new cells remaining free from one another, and usually each secreting a cell wall, then this process, whose relation to rejuvenescence is apparent, is called free-cell formation.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

Morton, J.L., letters with M. (1831) on Academy of Design, ~1~, 384 Motto of Morse coat of arms, ~2~, 258 Moulton, S.D., at M.'s funeral, ~2~, 512 Murray, Lindley, complimentary letter from Jedediah Morse (1806), ~1~, 14 Music, M. on Continental, ~1~, 325, 343 sacred opera at Rome, 341 Allegri's Miserere , 345 Naples, M. at (1830), ~1~, 363, 367 Campo Santo, 367-369 Convent of San Martino, 369, 370 Napoleon III, and M., ~2~, 449, 456 M. on, in New York, belief in his star, 452 Napoleon , transatlantic ship (1829), ~1~, 300 Napoleonic Wars, retreat from Moscow, ~1~, 93 English success in Spain, 110 overthrow of Napoleon, 127, 128 Louis XVIII's entrée into London (1814), 136-140 London fete of Allies, 142-147 Napoleon's return from Elba, 172 news in London of his abdication, 183-185 M. sees ship bearing Napoleon to St. Helena, 379 National Academy of Design, inception, M.'s plan of membership and control, ~1~, 276-282, 284 organisers, 280 M. as president, 280 M.'s annual address, review, and rejoinder (1827), 289 exhibition (1828), 291 M. secures casts for, 384 needs M.'s guiding hand (1831), 384 Trumbull's opposition to union of Art Academy, ~2~, 22 fear lest M. should resign presidency (1837), 33 M. expects to resign presidency (1839), 114 Daguerre elected an honorary member, 141 continuation of M.'s interest, 306 M. again president (1861), 417 M. presents portrait and brush of Allston, 436, 437 M. on progress (1868), 471 National Gallery, M. on (1829), ~1~, 309 Neptune , transatlantic ship (1813), ~1~, 118 Nettleton, ——, butler at Yale (1810), ~1~, 20 Neutral trade, search (1811), ~1~, 33 England and embargo, 39 Orders in Council and nonintercourse, 67, 70, 76 objects of Orders, 91, 92 repeal of Orders, 115 See also War of 1812.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

I dare say that you have not forgotten how our rulers were chosen; and the process of selection may be carried a step further:—As before, they must be constant and valiant, good-looking, and of noble manners, but now they must also have natural ability which education will improve; that is to say, they must be quick at learning, capable of mental toil, retentive, solid, diligent natures, who combine intellectual with moral virtues; not lame and one-sided, diligent in bodily exercise and indolent in mind, or conversely; not a maimed soul, which hates falsehood and yet unintentionally is always wallowing in the mire of ignorance; not a bastard or feeble person, but sound in wind and limb, and in perfect condition for the great gymnastic trial of the mind.
— from The Republic by Plato

"A prospector's pan is just like an ordinary tin wash-pan, wi' slopin' sides, only it's smaller; about a foot across at the bottom, an' made of iron, not tin.
— from The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

On the last day we spent three hours under a hot if early sun getting over eight miles of country to a point we could have reached in a motor omnibus in nine minutes and a half—I did it the next day in that—and then we made a massed attack upon entrenchments that could have shot us all about three times over if only the umpires had let them.
— from The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Out of the gray ring of the city, which incloses the mound, rise the great white domes and the whiter minarets of its numerous mosques, many of which are grand and imposing structures.
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor