AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

“The fight is coming up the ascent,” said Duncan, pointing in the direction of a new explosion of firearms; “we are too much in the center of their line to be effective.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

What good dinners you have—game every day, Malmsey-Madeira, and no end of fish from London.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

There’s no end of fish; and all sorts of wild fowl.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

With Hay, it was only the steady decline of strength, and the necessary economy of force; but with Lodge it was law of politics.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

I surrendered to him all his former notes, except one for which he was indorser.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Or art thou one of those naughty elfs or fairies, whom we thought to have left behind us, with other relics of Papistry, in merry old England?”
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The fact that the remaining trefoils turned eventually into fleurs-de-lis is only, I think, a natural expansion of form, and does not appear to have had anything to do with the French fleur-de-lis, which was adopted as an heraldic bearing for an entirely different reason.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

She received scores of letters asking information as to the best plants and most successful methods, others begging her not to give up public work, and many from friends who had no end of fun at her expense.
— 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

they were So loving and so lovely—till then never, Excepting our first parents, such a pair Had run the risk of being damn'd for ever; And Haidee, being devout as well as fair, Had, doubtless, heard about the Stygian river, And hell and purgatory—but
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Yet we must be reasonably cautious, since our knowledge is small, and there is some by no means negligible evidence of fundamental physiological differences between the sexes before puberty, relatively slight though these may be.
— from Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

“And proud of the title: not enough of fighting.
— from Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia: Being the Adventures of Prince Prigio's Son by Andrew Lang

[42] Of this treatise, no English or French translation has, I believe, been published.
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

With her hands in the berries, and her thoughts busily engaged, she was suddenly roused from her reverie by the noisy entrance of Fred, who just came in for a drink of water.
— from The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

Among the items, there are two I had no expectation of finding, and which, in this day of enquiry after Civil List influence, ought to be exposed.
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each State shall have at least one representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

A policy without philosophy is, like an unphilosophical religion, not established on firmer ground than those houses there on the river Ravi, whose existence is not safe for a single day, because the river at times takes it into its head to change its course.
— from The Coming Conquest of England by August Niemann

A single fatal thrust may launch him into eternity, yet no expression of fear escapes him; cool, and self-possessed, he stands before his victim, studious of every motion, and ready to take advantage of any chance.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various