Every time we move a foot or lift a weight we temporarily overcome one of the most universal of natural laws and yet the world is not disturbed.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

I was trying it over the other night, long after you were in bed, and I decided it was quite as fine as the Erl-King music.
— from The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories by Willa Cather

John Neville the Earl of Northumberland lay at York with a large body of men-at-arms, for he was still Lieutenant of the North.
— from Warwick, the Kingmaker by Charles Oman

One only need look at you, Moritz!——I don't know what a katzenjammer's like.
— from The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood by Frank Wedekind

"You are old no longer, and you are a great lady no longer.
— from Old Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"When any one discourses with thee, hear him attentively, and hold thyself in an easy attitude, neither playing with thy feet, nor putting thy mantle to thy mouth, nor spitting too often, nor looking about you here and there, nor rising up frequently if thou art sitting; for such actions are indications of levity and low breeding.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman

It was hard work for the cattle, and as they stopped to breathe them, Bertie cried out, in his abrupt fashion,— “Look here, James; by the time this grain comes off, or not long after, your time will be out, your four years.”
— from The Unseen Hand; or, James Renfew and His Boy Helpers by Elijah Kellogg

For nothing like the cheap tripper was ever seen in the world till our present enlightened and glorious day of progress; he is a new-grafted type of nomad, like and yet unlike a man.
— from Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul by Marie Corelli

Narrow turns where, going down, your hair pushed your hat off, no longer affright you; you take them jauntily—almost debonairly.
— from Roughing it De Luxe by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb