This was not, March said, quite the same as being drawn by a woman-and-dog team, which would have been the right means of doing a German fair; but it was something to have his chair pushed by a slender young girl, whose stalwart brother applied his strength to the chair of the lighter traveller; and it was fit that the girl should reckon the common hire, while the man took the common tip.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 1 by William Dean Howells

There is no more serious question than this in all education.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

Nothing makes such quick triumphant way in English society, as the promise of speedy political distinction.
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

It was this sense of outraged justice and humanity which led to the deliverance of a very noted "Oration" by Sidney Rigdon at Far West, on the Fourth of July, 1838, in the course of which there was expressed a strong determination to no more submit quietly to mob violence, and acts of pillage.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

Her needles moved so quickly that before long the amount of work completed was sufficient to offer for sale.
— from Harper's Young People, March 7, 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Why does not Mr Swett quote the whole of it?
— from The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill With a Reply to "Remarks on Frothingham's History of the Battle, by S. Swett" by Richard Frothingham

No man should quote the words of another, in place of an argument, unless he is willing to accept all the opinions of that man.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll