Madam, for your health to be good, it is necessary for your cerebrum and cerebellum to distribute a fine, well-conditioned marrow, in the spine of your back down to your highness's rump; and that this marrow should equally animate fifteen pairs of nerves, each right and left.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

They are gentle and cunning, and their passions are not easily roused, at least to open display; but once awakened, it is neither to uproar that these passions will be excited, nor by fair fight that they will be assuaged.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

And together husband and wife solved the puzzles that will fall to the share of, if not every reader, at least to every reader’s neighbor.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

"It does not even require a laboratory test to prove that the cave is rich in iron sulphid, but not gold."
— from The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley; Or, Diamond X and the Poison Mystery by Willard F. Baker

Upon the topmost edge of the snow-slope at the foot of which they were now encamped ran a long, low border of a kind of thorn-bush, huddling among great rocks and boulders, resembling a little the valleys of the Babbabōōmas.
— from The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

To work off their surplus ardor, or else to prevent their getting too fat and indolent, on the 1st of July, loaded down with cartridges and rations, the regiment marched aboard a steamer at dark and in the morning of the 2nd found themselves on the North Edisto river, and landed near Rockville, on John's Island.
— from Company G A Record of the Services of One Company of the 157th N. Y. Vols. in the War of the Rebellion from Sept. 19, 1862, to July 10, 1865 by A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow

That of the "New Education," rationalistic and "liberal," whose aim was the training of formidable individuals, self-centred, law-despising, time-serving, and cunning.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

[121] The Government of New England received a letter from the King, signifying his pleasure that there should be no further prosecution of the Quakers who were condemned to suffer death or other corporal punishment, or who were imprisoned or obnoxious to such condemnation; but that they be forthwith sent over to England for trial.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

In the light of a lantern standing in the snow the naked elms round about loomed weirdly.
— from The Side Of The Angels: A Novel by Basil King

Certainly none ever received a larger meed of reverential love.
— from Elizabeth Fry by Emma Raymond Pitman