Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

The wind is now N. N. E., and blows very irregularly.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

[ 300 ] Indeed, whenever a story is told, any native, even a boy, would be able to say whether this is one of his tribal lili’u or not.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The victory was given to his craft; for a flooded ship could not endure a battle.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

What sort of creature must he be who merely liked Charlotte, whose whole heart and senses were not entirely absorbed by her.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Notwithstanding the perilous situation in which we were still placed, ignorant of our position, although certainly at a great distance from land, without more food than would last us for a fortnight even with great care, almost entirely without water, and floating about at the mercy of every wind and wave on the merest wreck in the world, still the infinitely more terrible distresses and dangers from which we had so lately and so providentially been delivered caused us to regard what we now endured as but little more than an ordinary evil—so strictly comparative is either good or ill.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The most recent intelligence informs us that 2,500 negroes are collected there; they have introduced the democratic institutions of America into the country of their forefathers; and Liberia has a representative system of government, negro jurymen, negro magistrates, and negro priests; churches have been built, newspapers established, and, by a singular change in the vicissitudes of the world, white men are prohibited from sojourning within the settlement.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And so I did lay the law open to them, and rattle the Master Attendants out of their wits almost; and made the trial last till seven at night, not eating a bit all the day; only when we had done examination, and I given my thoughts that the neglect of the Gunner of the ship was as great as I thought any neglect could be, which might by the law deserve death, but Commissioner Middleton did declare that he was against giving the sentence of death, we withdrew, as not being of the Court, and so left them to do what they pleased; and, while they were debating it, the Boatswain of the ship did bring us out of the kettle a piece of hot salt beef, and some brown bread and brandy; and there we did make a little meal, but so good as I never would desire to eat better meat while I live, only I would have cleaner dishes.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Now ensued a brief season of deep suspense and waiting—during which even the few faint hearts still remaining near Tom Canty gradually scraped together courage enough to glide, one by one, over to the majority.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

The Stork's beak pinched her, and the wind whistled; it was not exactly agreeable, but she was going upward—upward towards Egypt—and she knew it; and that was why her eyes gleamed, and a spark seemed to fly out of them.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He saw that he was not even a brave man; for a brave man neglects no duty.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

He had kept it warm all day, and commenced to dish some up for me, but I told him that I would not eat a bite until Ben came.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

Thus in 1781 Selwyn wrote: "No event at Brooks's, but the general opinion is that it is en decadence .
— from Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley

" "I'm not exactly angry, Bessie," said Eleanor.
— from The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm; Or, Bessie King's New Chum by Jane L. Stewart

It was not merely the fact that the wages of a strong man were only seven shillings a week at the outside, a sum barely sufficient to keep him and his family from starvation and rags (as a fact it was not enough, and but for a little poaching and stealing he could not have lived), but it was customary, especially on the small farms, to get rid of the men after the harvest and leave them to exist the best way they could during the bitter winter months.
— from A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Mr. and Mrs. B—— did not eat anything, but served the table, with cordial entreaties to all to spare not; Mrs. B—— distributing the bread and sweetmeats with a lavish hand, and Mr. B—— cutting the meats—his mode of dealing with a ham being very unique as well as effective.
— from Sea-gift: A Novel by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

A species in this generalised sense is an aggregate of individuals, none exactly alike, but varying round a normal type, the characters of which are fixed in so far as they are adapted to environmental exigency.
— from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson

We did not encounter any buffaloes till we reached Fort Clarke; they appeared to have retired from the river; very frequently, however, we saw the paths and traces of other animals.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 2 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von