And you who have such good eyes, Ned, you can see the jetty of Port Said stretching into the sea.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

The metaphysical laws of existence are not yet considered subject to one invariable truth.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Now on very dark nights, light is a deadly enemy to piloting; you are aware that if you stand in a lighted room, on such a night, you cannot see things in the street to any purpose; but if you put out the lights and stand in the gloom you can make out objects in the street pretty well.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

He also commanded that those boys which were not yet circumcised should be circumcised now; and he drove those away that were appointed to hinder such their circumcision. 3.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

There he is now; you can see him.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Now you could scarcely have succeeded in such a policy even with a neighbour like yourselves; but in the present instance, as we have just shown, your habits are old-fashioned as compared with theirs.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

'Why, Lor' bless you, Mills,' says I, 'you see no more into this thing nor you can see into the middle of a potato.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

“Now you can shoot!”
— from The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range by George Manville Fenn

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— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Here is A RIDICULOUS ERROR: On Tuesday, the third of May, 1881, Scranton, Willard & Co., brokers, of New York City, sold to Decker & Co. stocks to the enormous sum of $127,000.
— from The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern

The school gardens in New York City, some in a space as small as a hearth rug, one yard by two, show how to use a very small patch of land to the best advantage.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

now your charge sustain; The past was ease; now first she suffers pain.
— from The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young

If I mistake not, you can swim like a fish?”
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

“That surely is not your child?” said Mrs. Sackville, as the boy walked off with the bundle singing, at the top of his voice, a very vulgar song, and affecting to reel like a drunken man.
— from The Travellers: A Tale, Designed for Young People. by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

" N. Y. Churchman : "Sermons practical in their nature, full of deep thought and wise counsel.
— from John Knox by William M. (William Mackergo) Taylor

Professor of Obstetrical and Clinical Midwifery in the Cornell University Medical College; Visiting Obstetrician to Bellevue Hospital, New York City; Surgeon to the Manhattan Maternity Dispensary; Consulting Obstetrician to the New York Maternity and Jewish Hospitals.
— from The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts by Margaret Sanger

The bargain was not yet concluded, so that it was useless for us to try to trade.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey