Je pense que le droit est maintenant dépassé par la technologie, et qu'il n'y a pas de protection possible au niveau juridique.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

* * * "Mr. Lincoln has not character enough for integrity and truth merely on his own ipse dixit to arraign President Buchanan, President Pierce and nine Judges of the Supreme Court, not one of whom would be complimented by being put on an equality with him.
— from The Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner

Not by nature creative, but always copying those nations with whom in their wanderings they came in touch, the Phœnicians produced a native jewellery of composite type in which there is a perpetual mixture of Egyptian and Assyrian forms.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith

New England, after the distress following the War of 1812 and the hard winter of 1816-1817, had sent many settlers into western New York and Ohio; the Western Reserve had increased in population by the immigration, of Connecticut people; Pennsylvania and New Jersey had sent colonists to southern and central Ohio, with Cincinnati as the commercial center.
— from Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner

The inhabitants of the Emerald City were polite people and never jeered at the unfortunate; but it was so long since they had seen a prisoner that they cast many curious looks toward the boy and many of them hurried away to the royal palace to be present during the trial.
— from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Declaring that no power on earth could keep her from her husband, she had mounted the splendid horse which was her own particular property, and now joined the party of volunteers.
— from Brother Van by Stella Wyatt Brummitt

Successive acts deprived them even of this poor privilege, and no Jew was suffered to dispose of his house without the leave of the king.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Volume 62, No. 386, December, 1847 by Various

The phenomena which are revealed to us are indefinitely varied; all physical phenomena are not just alike, and all mental phenomena are not just alike.
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

—A good deal of amusement was created by an account that on one occasion a picture of Mr. Whistler’s was publicly produced, and neither judge nor jury could tell which was the top and which the bottom.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, July 1883 by Chautauqua Institution