This natural division suggests the propriety of making another division equally distinct, which should comprise the study and interpretation of the surface markings of the planets and satellites, under the name of planetology.
— from Mars and Its Mystery by Edward Sylvester Morse

“Nor is it any argument that these Rosie Crucians are not inspired, because they do not say they are; which to me is no argument at all; but the suppression of what so happened, would argue much more sobriety and modesty; when as the profession of it with sober men, would be suspected of some piece of melancholy and distraction, especially in those things, where the grand pleasure is the evidence and exercise of Reason, not a bare belief, or an ineffable sense of life, in respect whereof there is no true Christian
— from Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples by Anonymous

They went by ship and by wagon, on horseback and on foot; a mighty army, passing over mountains and deserts, enduring privations and sickness; they were the creators of a commonwealth, the builders of states."
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

Fire discipline implies that, in a firing line without leaders, each man retains his presence of mind and directs effective fire upon the proper target.
— from Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by United States. War Department

This ludicrous mass consists in part of magnified and distorted events of true history, and in part of personages and details entirely spurious.
— from Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger

[18] aside; taken up a copy of Punch and let it fall with a thud to the floor, looked idly at a piece of music and decided, evidently, not to sing it.
— from Behind the Beyond, and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge by Stephen Leacock

There was a time when this thought would have produced on me a different effect from what it did then, a time when, dark as might have been the night, such a suspicion would have caused me to spring to my feet and instantaneously take the road to Sonora.
— from Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Mayne Reid

Judging from the entries in Gourgaud's "Journal," this young General pondered more than the rest on religious questions; and to him Napoleon unbosomed his thoughts.—Matter, he says, is everywhere and pervades everything; life, thought, and the soul itself are but properties of matter, and death ends all.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose