In North Carolina, Fort Lindsay, on the south side of the Tennessee river at the junction of Nantahala, in Swain county; Fort Scott, at Aquone, farther up Nantahala river, in Macon county; Fort Montgomery, at Robbinsville, in Graham county; Fort Hembrie, at Hayesville, in Clay county; Fort Delaney, at Valleytown, in Cherokee county; Fort Butler, at Murphy, in the same county.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Now you must understand that my words are an echo too, and therefore you need not wonder at me; but if you want to silence me, silence philosophy, who is my love, for she is always telling me what I am now telling you, my friend; neither is she capricious like my other love, for the son of Cleinias says one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, but philosophy is always true.
— from Gorgias by Plato

It is, of course, a matter of necessity in such cases to have the cracks and fissures, and especially the seam where the case and the lid join, hermetically caulked.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance &c. 642; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent. subordinate &c. (inferior) 34; mediocre &c. (average) 29; passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary &c. (habitual) 613; inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He has sought to cling to the ‘ideas of the people,’ or to what goes by that name in some circles of our intellectual classes.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

315–318; Drake, S.G., Early History of Georgia: Cuming’s Embassy; Boston, 1872; letter of Governor Johnson, December 27, 1730, noted in South Carolina Hist.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

i consonant is always like y in yes n before c, qu , or g is like ng in sing (compare the sound of n in anchor ) ca´-dô, ci´-bus, cê´-na ge´-mô, gig´-nô iam, io´-cus an´-co-ra (ang´-ko-ra) qu , gu , and sometimes su before a vowel have the sound of qw, gw , and sw .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER, WITH THE ANTIQUITIES, BOUNDS, AND LIBERTIES THEREOF Now touching the city of Westminster, I will begin at Temple bar, on the right hand or north side, and so pass up west through a back lane or street, wherein do stand three inns of chancery; [399] the first called Clement’s inn, because it standeth near to St. Clement’s church, but nearer to the fair fountain called Clement’s well; the second, New inn, so called as latelier made, of a common hostery, and the sign of Our Lady, an inn of chancery for students than the other, to wit, about the beginning of the reign of Henry VII., and not so late as some have supposed; to wit, at the pulling down of Strand inn, in the reign of King Edward VI.; for I read that Sir Thomas
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

“Again, we must admit that in many and various respects, nature is both instructed and constrained by circumstances themselves; and that reason subsequently makes perfect and enriches with additional discoveries the things which it has borrowed from nature; in some cases rapidly, and in others more slowly.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

If she could make it all right, in the past, and now; if she could feel that all she had to do was to be tenderly sorry, and to love on through the darkness, she would not mind the dark; it would be only a phase of the life,—the love.
— from Real Folks by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

Now it so chanced that Adam, having his own superstitions, had lately taken it into his head that all the various disasters which had befallen the Eureka, together with all the little blemishes and defects that yet marred its construction, were owing to the want of the diamond bathed in the mystic moonbeams, which his German authority had long so emphatically prescribed; and now that a monthly stipend far exceeding his wants was at his disposal, and that it became him to do all possible honour to the earl's patronage, he resolved that the diamond should be no longer absent from the operations it was to influence.
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 11 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

In proportion to the population he is more numerous in Southern California than anywhere else in the world, and we might therefore expect to find a strong and effective organization of motorists in Los Angeles.
— from On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

[5] Sept. 30, 1895 Extract From A Letter The Rules and By-laws in the Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, originated not in solemn conclave as in ancient Sanhedrim.
— from Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy

—May I add, in my defence as to the Thracians' smoking, that all I said was, that there was nothing in Solinus, chap.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The night had now, indeed, suddenly changed its aspect; the rain descended in torrents, even more impetuously than on the former night, while the thunder burst over their very heads, as they wound upward through the brake.
— from Eugene Aram — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

“Oh no,” I said confidently.
— from Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser by George Manville Fenn

At certain stages they consist of naked masses of protoplasm of very considerable size, not infrequently several centimetres in diameter.
— from Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell