“Everybody is ignorant that you are the bearer of a letter from the Island of Elba, and addressed to M. Noirtier?” “Everybody, except the person who gave it to me.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

the hairs of the body are much longer on the side and rump than any other part, which gives the body and apparent flatness, particularly when the animal rests on it's belley.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But rather we have here a problem which gradually works out its own solution and, as the periods in which a given advance takes place towards the realisation of the ideal of perpetual peace will, we hope, become with the passing of time shorter and shorter, we must approach ever nearer to this goal.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

To be sure, he needs some of the knowledge of the past, which gives the truest basis for conjecture as to the future; but he knows this need,—he perceives it, and that is something.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

(At the first words of this address D’Artagnan had seized Porthos’s arm, which he pressed with gradually increasing force.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

* Online amusement parks with group plays, creative offerings (drawing, painting, building of 3-D electronic sculptures), shopping (with "live" people presenting merchandise and good pictures of the offerings, test drives, etc.), casino (with real prizes), theater with live performance, online "dressing rooms" (submit a 2-D picture of yourself, and play with your looks), online car driving schools (drive a car through Tokyo or New York, or go on safari).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

In return for these good offices, this gentleman, who was originally of Scotland, rewarded her for the present with great liberality, assured her of his influence in promoting her husband, and took upon himself the charge of young Ferdinand's education; the boy was immediately taken into his protection, and entered as a trooper in his own regiment; but his good intentions towards his father-in-law were frustrated by the death of the German, who, in a few days after this disposition, was shot in the trenches before Temiswaer.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Rome was divided into twenty-eight parishes, and each parish was governed by a cardinal priest, or presbyter, a title which, however common or modest in its origin, has aspired to emulate the purple of kings.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Back , v. a. 1. Assist, aid, second, support, countenance, favor, sustain, abet, side with, stand by, take part with, give support to, co-operate with, back up.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

If the children gathered about her, as they sometimes did, Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them, with shrill, incoherent exclamations, that made her mother tremble because they had so much the sound of a witch's anathemas.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

To rise from the humblest situation to the height of empire like Napoleon is no uncommon destiny; there have been innumerable successful adventurers and usurpers; but there never was a man who, without altering his social position in the slightest degree, without obtaining any office or station whatever, raised himself to a height of political power which gave him an enormous capacity for good or evil, and made him the most important and most conspicuous man of his time and country.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

A writer of romance might render her one of those interesting personages whose griefs have been deepened by their royalty, and whose adventures, touched with the warm hues of love and distraction, closed at the bars of her prison-grate—a sad example of a female victim to the state!
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

kay dì lawum ang pagkalubung, That post will get uprooted because it’s not planted deep into the ground.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I should not have thought that there was e’er a Busnó would know us in these parts, where Gitanos are never seen.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

8 Afterwards, in latitude 14°, the pilots were asked for their positions, who gave them, some much more, others much less.
— from The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

Love may voltige in France; but, in England, it cannot, with safety to the lover: and it is a truth which, I believe, no man of attentive observation will deny, that, as, in general, English wives are more warm in their conjugal attachments than those of France, so, with regard to individuals, that those English women who are the most light in their manners, and who are the least constant in their attachments, have the smallest portion of that warmth , that indescribable passion which God has given to human beings as the great counterbalance to all the sorrows and sufferings of life.
— from Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by William Cobbett

What Does It Prove Human Responsibility Abolish Dirt Religion And Morality Jesus As A Model Singing Lies A Walk Through A Cemetery Peace With God Saving The Soul The Search For Something To Worship Where Are They Some Questions For Christians To Answer The Image Of God Religion And Science The Bible And The Child When To Help The World The Judgment Of God Christianity
— from Is The Bible Worth Reading, and Other Essays by L. K. (Lemuel Kelley) Washburn

R74664, 23Feb51, Benziger Bros., inc. (PWH) Wonder gifts; the solemn moment on Holy Thursday nineteen hundred years ago.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals: Artwork 1951-1959 Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office