Then it came out that Jos's remittances were not paid, that the house was in difficulties, which Amelia ought to have seen before, her mother said, but she cared for nothing or nobody except Georgy.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Such products as the mercantile navies of Northern Europe gather from many distant shores, were there brought within the compass of an industrious population: who fed their flocks on the cold crests of the sierra; cultivated their gardens and orchards on its higher plateaus; and gathered the luxuriant products of the tropics from the country that for them lay, for the most part, beneath the clouds, and spread away from the lowest slopes of the Andes to the neighbouring shores of the Pacific.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

No one, not even Gen. Scott and Mr. Lincoln, since January, 1861, has exercised an influence equal to Mr. Seward's on the affairs of the country, and amicus Plato, etc., sed magis amica veritas .
— from Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

No one, not even God, can force us to understand this; we have to perceive it for ourselves, and to live in the knowledge of it."
— from The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson

We had a number of Norwegian emigrants, going to America, in the second-class cabins.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

Among these, besides Mr. Schillings, were naturalists of note; e. g.: the African explorer Prof. G. Schweinfurth, Dr. Heinroth and Dr. Schäff, the director of the zoological garden in Hanover; there were likewise horse-fanciers of first-rank, such as General Zobel, and the well-known hippological writer Major R. Schoenbeck.
— from Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst

Twenty minutes longer to chew one's dinner is worth a whole box of pills, and no one need expect good digestion who neglects thorough chewing and salivation of the food.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

State church, notion of, not easily got rid of, 112 .
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston

The Welsh call the adjective the weak name or noun, enw gwan .
— from An Outline of English Speech-craft by William Barnes

"No one need ever grow old," said Patricia.
— from Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins

No other novelist, except George Eliot, has dealt so largely in analysis of motive, has so fully explained and commented upon the springs of action in the persons of the drama, both before and after the facts.
— from Henry James, Jr. by William Dean Howells