"I'm not," I retorted, "but only about my own.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I would not stay dinner, thinking to go home to dinner, and did go by water as far as the bridge, but thinking that they would take it kindly my being there, to be bayled for him if there was need, I returned, but finding them gone out to look after it, only Will and his wife and sister left and some friends that came to visit him, I to Westminster Hall, and by and by by agreement to Mrs. Lane’s lodging, whither I sent for a lobster, and with Mr. Swayne and his wife eat it, and argued before them mightily for Hawly, but all would not do, although I made her angry by calling her old, and making her know what herself is.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Whatever may be the stipulated number of residents along each of the sides (which number is represented by n ), the total number of different arrangements may be thus ascertained.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Before introducing Hippocrates to him, Socrates thinks proper to warn the youth against the dangers of 'influence,' of which the invidious nature is recognized by Protagoras himself.
— from Protagoras by Plato

The only fundamental fact, however, is that it does not tend to reach a final state: and every philosophy and scientific hypothesis ( e.g. materialism) according to which such a final state is necessary, is refuted by this fundamental fact.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"I imagine not," I replied, "but he won't want to sample them."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Thence home and late writing letters, and this night I received, by Will, L105, the first-fruits of my endeavours in the late contract for victualling of Tangier, for which God be praised!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Meantime all nature is refreshed; but heaps of flower-petals and fallen leaves are seen under the trees.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

Underneath, the wings were exquisitely marked, flushed, and shaded almost past description in delicate and nearly intangible reddish browns, rose madder on grey, pink-tinged brown and clay colour.
— from Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost Cabin by Gene Stratton-Porter

A note inside ran briefly: My address is No. —— East Thirty-seventh Street.
— from The Diamond Master by Jacques Futrelle

We were leaning on the sides of the pinnace, talking of one thing and another, when Ned Land, stretching out his hand towards a spot on the sea, said: "Do you see anything there, sir?" "No, Ned," I replied; "but I have not your eyes, you know." "Look well," said Ned, "there, on the starboard beam, about the height of the lantern!
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Now, it requires but a superficial acquaintance with history to be aware that this standard is constantly changing, and that it is never precisely the same even in the most similar countries, or in two successive generations in the same country.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

As to Singleton and Hughes, I think they are not in Richmond by any authority, unless it be from you.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

Boldly Love's wavelets now leap to the land, Swiftly they scale every tremulous strand, Lightly they sway with the wavering screen, White gleam their feet on its background of green; Yet the old parapet, mossy and gray, Never is reached by their glittering spray.
— from Poems by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard