"Croak," she cried; "it is always wet, and as quiet as death in Soroe."
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

It is characteristic that the question about dress is said to have been the first question.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

We are in southeastern Colorado—pass immense herds of cattle as our first-class locomotive rushes us along—two or three times crossing the Arkansas, which we follow many miles, and of which river I get fine views, sometimes for quite a distance, its stony, upright, not very high, palisade banks, and then its muddy flats.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

We ought, therefore, to consider attentively in what manner those sensible qualities are disposed, in such things as by experience we find beautiful, or which excite in us the passion of love, or some correspondent affection.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

At melius fuerat non scribere, namque tacere Tutum semper erit,——— [162] 'Tis a general fault, so Severinus the Dane complains [163] in physic, unhappy men as we are, we spend our days in unprofitable questions and disputations, intricate subtleties, de lana caprina about moonshine in the water, leaving in the mean time those chiefest treasures of nature untouched, wherein the best medicines for all manner of diseases are to be found, and do not only neglect them ourselves, but hinder, condemn, forbid, and scoff at others, that are willing to inquire after them.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

At the same time the bas-relief teaches us that “the four winds” had a deeper meaning than has been realized, for it represents life-giving breath carrying with it the seeds of the four vital elements, emanating from the central lord of life, spreading to the four quarters and dividing itself so as to disseminate vitality throughout the universe.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

She had carried berries enough to market to let her preserve her quinces and damsons in sirups clear as sunshine, and make her tiny allowance of currant and blackberry wines, where were innocently simulated the flavors of rare vintages.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The given fact is a mark that a certain relation subsists between the quantities of some of the elements concerned; while the fact sought presupposes a certain relation between the quantities of some other elements: now, if these last quantities are dependent in some known manner upon the former, or vice versa , we can argue from the numerical relation between the one set of quantities, to determine that which subsists between the other set; the theorems of the calculus affording the intermediate links.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

In 1853 Congress demonetized all silver halves, quarters and dimes in sums of over $5.00.
— from Betsy Gaskins (Dimicrat), Wife of Jobe Gaskins (Republican) Or, Uncle Tom's Cabin Up to Date by W. I. (William I.) Hood

I think she takes quite a delight in setting people by the ears.
— from Heart and Cross by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

He wrote to a friend, "If I could get any influence over the medical students I should indeed think myself honored; and though some who have had experience think such a hope quite a dream, I still venture to entertain it."
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

It seems to me—” “That I’d better get quick and do it,” shouted Corbett, vanishing with the utmost celerity.
— from A Mysterious Disappearance by Louis Tracy

Now, I want you to answer my questions, and do it straight.
— from Sevenoaks: A Story of Today by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland