A noted East Cherokee chief, known to the whites as Yonaguska or Drowning-bear.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Because, in the first place, if this be so no other animal but man, and not even children, can be said to act voluntarily.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

—We have absolutely no experience concerning cause , viewed psychologically we derive the whole concept from the subjective conviction, that we ourselves are causes—that is to say, that the arm moves....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[ 142 ] aſpere ali nemici et coſi como li fazoli aſciugano yl ſudore coſi le nr̃e arme ateranno et deſtrugeno tuti li aduerſarj et maleuoli de La nr̃a fede fece queſto acio el moro q̃ pareua eſſere piu aſtuto de li alt i lo diceſſe aL re.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The right book at the right time from the right author -- and, not entirely coincidentally, Cory Doctorow's best novel yet.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

No evil could come out of the contemplation of an expensively decorated chamber.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The initiated used particular signs of recognition amongst themselves, and they also had lucky and unlucky numbers, emblematical colours, &c. The more dangerous the sport the more it was indulged in by military men.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

No English cook could dress a dinner; no English cook could select a dessert; no English coachman could drive; nor English jockey ride; no Englishman—such were his habitual taunts—knew how to come into a room; no Englishwoman understood how to dress herself.
— from The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1 by Philip Wharton

May we not even call cherries Swiss?
— from Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

England lay ready to hand for Norman invasion—the hope of peaceable succession to the saintly Edward the Confessor had to be abandoned by William; the gradual permeation of sluggish England with Norman earls, churchmen, courtiers, had been comprehended and checked by Earl Godwin and his sons (themselves of Danish race); but there still remained the way of open war and an appeal to religious zeal; and this way William took.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

In 1941 the Temporary National Economic Committee completed a comprehensive investigation into the workings of the national economy.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Harry S. Truman

Economic aid - recipient: $77 million (1999) Currency (code): nakfa (ERN) Currency code: ERN Exchange rates: nakfa (ERN) per US dollar - 14 (2006), 14.5 (2005), 13.788 (2004), 13.878 (2003), 13.958 (2002)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Anna Maria soon got over the effects of her bath: she did not even catch cold.
— from The Nursery, February 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 2 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various