"Now, in the first place, the theory that a person has a right in dealing with his fellows to take advantage of his superior abilities is nothing other than a slightly more roundabout expression of the doctrine that might is right.
— from Equality by Edward Bellamy

But Mr. Atkins, and the men and boys and women and girls left behind, were all staring open-mouthed at the pictures, and spelling out the no less wonderful descriptions of the staring yellow posters with the big flaring letters, so no one noticed her particularly, until the storekeeper tore his gaze away from the man flying through the paper rings, and the other one riding five prancing horses, and remarked, "I declare, I don't b'lieve I put up that rye flour for Polly Pepper, after all.
— from The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Margaret Sidney

43 You wish me to argue whether Paul had a revelation: I do not care greatly; I have had none, but roses, trees, music, and a running stream, and Sirius.
— from Poem Outlines by Sidney Lanier

“A princess,” he adds, “resplendent in darkness, and whose virtues were born within the chance, but without the power, of fortune.”
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 2 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

"Come, come, you little croaker, try and put such thoughts out of your pretty head, and remember I 'deserve the fair' after having been so 'brave' as to mount this rickety wheel, but I wish you would take this parcel from me; the bobbins are in it, which I have perilled my life to bring!
— from Legend of Moulin Huet by Lizzie A. Freeth

Tell him, too, from me, how much I admire his style; its rich imagery—its—" "I must not let you go on, sir, for such praise has already rendered it difficult to avow myself the author of the book.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852 by Various

It became evident before long that George Fordyce appeared to find some great attraction at The Anchorage, though in former years he had only presented himself at rare intervals during the months his people were at the sea-side.
— from The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. Swan

In his controversies with Mr. Gladstone, in his articles on the Evolution of Theology , and in his recent polemic with the Rev. Mr. Wace in the Nineteenth Century , Professor Huxley shows all his freshness, and proves himself as ready in demolishing theological fictions as in demonstrating scientific facts.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

On asking our jarvey the meaning of Bally as a prefix, he answered reflectively: “I don't think there's annything onderhanded in the manin', melady; I think it means BALLY jist.”
— from Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

had pronounced himself at Roye, I did not feel greatly reassured.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de