Nay, even where good manners alone are concerned, the lawgiver appears, and with an amusing simplicity:
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

‘I reserved in my own hands, some acres of ground adjacent to the house, for making experiments in agriculture, according to the directions of Lyle, Tull, Hart, Duhamel, and others who have written on this subject; and qualified their theory with the practical observations of farmer Bland, who was my great master in the art of husbandry.—In short, I became enamoured of a country life; and my success greatly exceeded my expectation—I drained bogs, burned heath, grubbed up furze and fern; I planted copse and willows where nothing else would grow; I gradually inclosed all my farms, and made such improvements that my estate now yields me clear twelve hundred pounds a year—All this time my wife and I have enjoyed uninterrupted health, and a regular flow of spirits, except on a very few occasions, when our cheerfulness was invaded by such accidents as are inseparable from the condition of life.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Dílì makatublag sa tanan ug maglútù lang kug gamay, If I don’t prepare but a little, not everyone will get s.t. to eat.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The obstinacy of their battles is wonderful, and they never end without great effusion of blood: for as to running away, they know not what it is.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

No encouragement was given to immigration, and, to make their seclusion more perfect, the land on either side of the mountain wall that surrounded the camp they duly preempted.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Nothing else was gone.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

I have had no experience with gods.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

If antagonistic in some respects to national unity, this vigorous local life had nevertheless been a source of national energy while Greece had still its independence to win; and now that national independence was won, it might well have been made the basis of a popular and effective system of self-government.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

Even if the iceberg had been visible half a mile away it is doubtful whether some portion of her tremendous length would not have been touched, and it is in the highest degree unlikely that the lookout could have seen the berg half a mile away in the conditions that existed that night, even with glasses.
— from The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley

My greatest dread in it all was to break the news to my unhappy mother, and trying to brace myself with the thought that I was now entrusted with grave responsibilities, and no longer a boy dependent on the advice of another, I passed down the street and into the house.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here."
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

She revealed all that was hidden away at Lucienne; she gave word by word an inventory of the treasures she had concealed, forgetting nothing, for did not each word give her a second of time?
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

The allied Grecians, though at first successful, were defeated near Ephesus with great loss.
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson

You see how nicely everything was going to work out.
— from Pee-Wee Harris by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

To Diana it seemed as though the duet were very quickly over, and although the applause and recalls were persistent, no encore was given.
— from The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler