I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Their rude minds, insensible perhaps of the finer arts, were astonished by the magnificent scenery: and the poverty of their native towns enhanced the populousness and riches of the first metropolis of Christendom.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This is that spirit of ethereal nature which, in the Thousand and One Nights , the enchanter confined in his bottle.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

She had a written character, as large as a proclamation; and, according to this document, could do everything of a domestic nature that ever I heard of, and a great many things that I never did hear of.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The major difficulty which seems to arise is that the heat needed to effect evaporation changes the character of the soluble material, at the same time driving off som
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It should be noted that E. queen is not precisely the same word as E. quean .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The scholar, who held her in parley for his diversion, answered, 'Madam, thou hast not presently trusted thine honour in my hands for any love that thou borest me, but to regain him whom thou hast lost, wherefore it meriteth but greater severity, and if thou think that this way alone was apt and opportune unto the vengeance desired of me, thou thinkest foolishly; I had a thousand others; nay, whilst feigning to love thee, I had spread a thousand snares about thy feet, and it would not have been long, had this not chanced, ere thou must of necessity have fallen into one of them, nor couldst thou have fallen into any but it had caused thee greater torment and shame than this present, the which I took, not to ease thee, but to be the quicklier satisfied.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Alexander conquered with the arms of Philip, but the two heroes who preceded Charlemagne bequeathed him their name, their examples, and the companions of their victories.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In the edge of the evening, a boat was heard coming along, and George Shelby handed Cassy aboard, with the politeness which comes naturally to every Kentuckian, and exerted himself to provide her with a good state-room.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

However it was not the early workman who had done this, but a 150 plain clothes policeman who still hid behind the bushes and, seeing the Kid searching for his bundle, sprang from concealment, saying—"You are looking for a bundle, and I am looking for you."
— from The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W. H. (William Henry) Davies

In November the eldest apprentice had served his time.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 by Martin Andersen Nexø

In reply he explains that his first rating was low because his name came near the end of the alphabet.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

During the 1996 CENL meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, Gabriel became an official CENL website, with a new trilingual (English, French, German) portal launched in January 1997.
— from The eBook is 40 (1971-2011) by Marie Lebert

It was written near the end of the year, and shortly after William's return from Flanders, where some bloody battles had been fought, and a great number of lives had been lost among the English troops; so his majesty's temper was not sweetened in the least.
— from Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 2. (of 3) Abridged and Fully Illustrated by Agnes Strickland

The great enterprise of connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific States by railways and telegraph lines has been entered upon with a vigor that gives assurance of success, notwithstanding the embarrassments arising from the prevailing high prices of materials and labor.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

"I'm not tall enough to please everyone of the feminine gender.
— from The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

“And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but these he cannot take.” Of this Edmund Gosse says, in a prose so authoritatively beautiful that it hangs level in the balance with the rich “poetry of elegiacal regret”: “No translation ever smelt less of the lamp and more of the violet than this.
— from Louise Imogen Guiney by Alice Brown

" "Yes, but I've had nothing to eat since last night.
— from For the Liberty of Texas by Edward Stratemeyer

But grant a spiritual organism in perfect correspondence with a perfect spiritual Environment, and the conditions necessary to Eternal Life are satisfied.
— from Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond