The mind can freely select, choose, point out the right and just one—its function stops there.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Every day Rusty and Joseph fought at sight.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The Laddies by the banks o' Nith Wad trust his Grace^1 wi a', Jamie; But he'll sair them, as he sair'd the King— Turn tail and rin awa', Jamie.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

If so, tell them, confidentially, the thousands I have devoted to the cause, and guarantee the haters of Train that his name shall not appear in The Revolution after January 1.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

This supposition is based upon rational and just grounds; since many contagious distempers may be clearly traced to the exhalations of the earth, acted on by the intense heat of the sun.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Next we graze the high reefs and jutting rocks of Pachynus; and far off appears Camarina, forbidden for ever by oracles to move, and the Geloan plains, and vast Gela named after its river.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

After that the vehemence of the rain abated, just as the water vanished when it fell on the glowing brand.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Rom. and Jul. , i. 1.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

134 Note 128 ( return ) [ Al Jannabi (apud Gagnier, tom. ii.
— 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

I saw Romeo and Juliet.
— from Against the Current: Simple Chapters from a Complex Life by Edward Alfred Steiner

"Well, it's all right anyway, Jim, long as you're going to be rich again some time or other."
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10 by Mark Twain

Among these were James Barbour, of Orange, afterwards the colleague of Tazewell in the House of Delegates and in the Senate of the United States, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of War, and Minister to England, and renowned for his splendid eloquence and glowing patriotism; William Henry Cabell, also the colleague of Tazewell in the House of Delegates, Governor, and President of the Court of Appeals; George Keith Taylor, another colleague in the House of Delegates, a lawyer almost unrivalled at the bar, a patriot without fear and without reproach, who went down to an early grave; Robert Barraud Taylor, then in the flush of his brilliant youth, whom Tazewell was to meet at a memorable session on the floor of the House of Delegates, and who was to be his able and accomplished rival at the bar throughout his whole forensic career; John Randolph, and John Thompson.
— from Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell by Hugh Blair Grigsby

Soon the hollow cheeks of the children began to get round and rosy, their eyes began to shine, and they wanted to run and jump and play.
— from Under Many Flags by Elsie Singmaster

When the Torah was revealed and God communicated the code of laws to Moses, the angels spoke: "Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who lovest righteousness and justice."
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Louis Ginzberg

NOTE-The above is for front and back rolls the same dia. {131} SLUBBING, INTERMEDIATE, ROVING AND JACK FRAMES.
— from Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery by Howard & Bullough American Machine Company

Note 72 ( return ) [ A Jew, gratified his contempt and hatred for all the Christians, by enclosing three bands, each of ten hogs, and discriminated by the names of Goths, Greeks, and Romans.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

I guess Uncle Ezra was too much for Pa in joking when they were boys, 'cause Pa told me that all rules against joking were suspended while Uncle Ezra was here, and for me to play any thing on him I could.
— from The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

They struck off from the river and journeyed all day among sand-hills, among which they camped for the night.
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty