Knowledge, where it produces any bad effects at all, does as much mischief to one sex as to the other .
— from On Love by Stendhal

Many puzzles are based entirely on the tendency that people have to do this.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The stalks rise up a yard high, or better, being creased or hollow, having leaves at the joints, but lesser; and at the tops of the branched stalks, umbels or tufts of white flowers; after which comes long crested black shining seed, pointed at both ends, tasting quick, yet sweet and pleasant.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

He was manly in his person, and blunt even to rudeness, and I saw by the quizzical look which he cast upon the spruce little Crowe that he was quietly quizzing him from head to heel.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Let him run with the Pack, and be entered with the others.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Fleay’s whole theory rests on this poem, and biographical evidence is unnecessary.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

“Importuna” is “a plaguy baggage;” “adulterium” is rendered “her pranks;” “ambages” becomes either “a long rabble of words,” “a long-winded detail,” or “a tale of a tub;” “miserabile carmen” is “a dismal ditty;” “increpare hos” is “to rattle these blades;” “penetralia” means “the parlour;” while “accingere,” more literally than elegantly, is translated “buckle to.”
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

When in the enfranchisement of the black men they saw another ignorant class of voters placed above their heads, and beheld the danger of a distinctively "male" government, forever involving the nations of the earth in war and violence; and demanded for the protection of themselves and children, that woman's voice should be heard and her opinions in public affairs be expressed by the ballot, they were coolly told that the black man had earned the right to vote, that he had fought and bled and died for his country.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He took a book from his pocket and began energetically to read it, judging by the precision and frequency with which he turned the leaves.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Old Mrs. Wick, rather imposing in grey, with some fine lace, and a cap, and a handsome old brooch of Irish paste and black enamel, necessarily sat on Ferdie Walbridge's right at dinner.
— from Happy House by Hutten zum Stolzenberg, Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von

He turned his paper over and over again in the vain search for distraction; he divided it into parts and became entangled in them; now he would cast them from him and trample them under his feet; and now they would be flapping about his head; he would be covered and utterly concealed in newspaper.
— from The Creators: A Comedy by May Sinclair

The polar axis being entirely below the telescope and being driven by the clock, we have a perfect method of mounting a speculum of any weight we please.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

"Hear about the racket over at our place?" asked Bud, easily enough, but with a beating heart.
— from The Boy Ranchers in Camp; Or, The Water Fight at Diamond X by Willard F. Baker

Strogue had shown in very early days the quick force of his genius by running away from school, and defying pursuit, and beginning earnest life in a wherry.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Though he did not formally profess Christianity, he studied our Christian Scriptures, acknowledged their value and influence, and published a book entitled "The Precepts of Jesus."
— from A Tour of the Missions: Observations and Conclusions by Augustus Hopkins Strong

That is, a brown eye is practically a blue eye plus an additional layer of pigment on the outer surface of the iris.
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer