I am in hopes that we need have no inquest, for if we had it would surely kill poor Lucy, if nothing else did.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The true puzzle lover is never satisfied with mere haphazard trials.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Osmund Tutland from Hjelmeland in Ryfylke, and wife Malinda from Aardal in Ryfylle and two children had come to Mission Township, La Salle County, in 1836; a daughter, Mrs. Anna Hegglund (b. 1842) is at present living in Newark.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Our state is not so well governed, our private life is not so virtuous, in a word we are not so favoured by fortune that we can keep our ears pure or at any rate our eyes at least undefiled by the many and various impieties of this iron race.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

To that kind of a person life is not an advantage, is it?
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

But if verily the mind Thus all passive lies; If no living power within Its own force supplies; If it but reflect again, Like a glass, things false and vain— Whence the wondrous faculty That perceives and knows, That in one fair ordered scheme Doth the world dispose; Grasps each whole that Sense presents, Or breaks into elements?
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

The precise location is not material, as it is now known that native copper, in such condition as to have been easily workable by the Indians, occurs throughout the whole southern Allegheny region from about Anniston, Alabama, into Virginia.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

la provincia cercana; pero la insurrección no cundía en el término de la ciudad episcopal.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

(To city man, or some sweet parlor lady, I now talk.)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Have you ever seen any place like it?" "No.
— from In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller

Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but a psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes.
— from An Introduction to Psychology Translated from the Second German Edition by Wilhelm Max Wundt

And those books you know about, were they books from the public library in New Orleans?
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

It is not "natural," in the sense in which a physical law is natural, that is, in the sense of going forward automatically from stage to stage without backward turnings, deflections to the left, or fallings away on the right.
— from Liberalism by L. T. (Leonard Trelawny) Hobhouse

pr lb., of which they will be amply repaid by the advance on their sales, and as mankind in general are bound by interest, and as the duty of about a shill'g pr lb. is now taken off tea when exported, the Company can afford their teas cheaper than the Americans can smuggle them from foreigners, which puts the success of the design beyond a doubt.
— from Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake

Free and vivid as is their color, the breadth of primeval liberty is not less seen in the splendid spaces of Brangwyn's pictures.
— from The Jewel City by Ben Macomber

An alleged voyage of Jean Cousin, in 1488, two years and more before this, from Dieppe to the coast of Brazil, is here brought in by certain French writers, like Estancelin and Gaffarel, as throwing some light on the intercourse of Columbus and Pinzon, later if not now.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

Under the influence of this principle, men depart from truth, it being itself the greatest practical lie in nature, as it sets up that which is comparatively nothing above universal existence.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward