" Where the man is a brutal tyrant, the problem is comparatively easy.
— 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 all these particulars, I conceive, England may touch about one million sterling a-year.—I don’t pretend to make an exact calculation; perhaps, it may be something less, and perhaps, a great deal more.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

[340] The Going of Lanval to Avalon The fairy romances which were recorded during the mediaeval period in continental Europe report a surprisingly large number of heroes who, like Cuchulainn and Ossian, fell under the power of fairy women or fées , and followed one of them to the Apple-Land or Avalon.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

“No political institution can endure,” observes the eloquent historian of the Middle Ages, “which does not rivet itself to the heart of men by ancient prejudices or acknowledged merit.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

This phrase is curious enough in itself to deserve illustration.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Maledictus sit in vertice, in temporibus, in fronte, in auriculis, in superciliis, in oculis, in genis, in maxillis, in naribus, in dentibus, mordacibus, in labris sive molibus, in labiis, in guttere, in humeris, in harnis, in brachiis, in manubus, in digitis, in pectore, in corde, et in omnibus interioribus stomacho tenus, in renibus, in inguinibus, in femore, in genitalibus, in coxis, in genubus, in cruribus, in pedibus, et in unguibus.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Nangulitáwu si Pidru ni Istir, Pedro is courting Esther.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Preaching to Mongols is a little different from preaching at home—a little different from preaching in China even.
— from James Gilmour of Mongolia: His diaries, letters, and reports by James Gilmour

I can answer some of those haunting letters, or write autographs; I can loll and think; I can put that wretched-looking desk to rights; I can polish up that time-worn gold pen; I can empty and refill my inkstand.
— from Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things. by Fanny Fern

It is quite time that we recognized that the best work in composition can be done, not while the pupil is correcting errors in the use of language which he never dreamed of, nor while he is writing ten similes or ten periodic sentences, but when both intellect and feeling combine and work together to produce some whole.
— from English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

Ransom : “I have been trying to think what was the very humblest pie I could eat, by way of penance; and it appears to me that I had better begin by saying that I have come to ask her for the money I refused.”
— from The Register by William Dean Howells

Generally whenever two conductors in different electrical conditions are put in contact, electricity will flow from one to the other.
— from Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare by Charles William Sleeman

3 I have occasionally seen four or five persons in constant employ, solely to supply the wants of a family of the same number, whose health, collectively , required an amount of physical labor adequate to their own wants.
— from The Young Man's Guide by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

There is no difference in principle , in Christian ethics , between the despised slavedealer and the Christian who buys slaves from, or sells slaves to him; indeed, if slaves were not wanted by the respectable, the wealthy, and the religious in a community, there would be no slaves in that community, and of course no slavedealers .
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

People in civilisation eat and drink either at stated hours or when hungry and thirsty.
— from The White Chief of the Caffres by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

The third period is, curiously enough, one of reaction.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Now that the time is past I can explain these impressions; then, I contented 45 myself with feeling them.
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget