If one pen at least is to be not in line with a sheep, there would be thirty solutions to that problem.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Duchenne states that the pyramidal muscle of the nose is less under the control of the will than are the other muscles round the eyes.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The men that I know of the nine I like very well; that is, Mr. Pierrepont, Lord Brereton, and Sir William Turner; and I do think the rest are so, too; but such as will not be able to do this business as it ought to be, to do any good with.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

their name is "legion"; acervatim[Lat]; en foule[Fr]; "many- headed multitude"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But the difference between them and the government by the Nation is like the difference between the hand-loom and the power-loom.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

As she really knew as much about the cabala as I did she did not want it to be explained to her, but translated the numbers into letters as I wrote them down.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

My uncertainty in the four days which she had wisely left me convinced me that I was not in love with her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Præf., ‘Impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas , in liberto officium’, with its context.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Nothing is left.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

"No—he is not in love with me.
— from The Title Market by Emily Post

On the table beside me burned a lamp, and near it lay a little box.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Next I looked for and found his overshoes nearby the umbrella: they had evidently been worn in rough weather and had not since been cleaned, but they too were dry and so did not prove anything."
— from A Master Hand: The Story of a Crime by Richard Dallas

Even though I am a layman, I make bold to say that the so-called laws laid down in books on economics are not immutable like the laws of Medes and Persians, nor are they universal.
— from The Wheel of Fortune by Mahatma Gandhi