All three friends knew that they were nearing the end, and that if it were not the one it would be the other; but the affectation of readiness for death is a stage rôle, and stoicism is a stupid resource, though the only one.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

“Oh, I don't know,” she would reply, feeling delight in the fact that one should think so, hesitating to believe, though she really did, that she was vain enough to think so much of herself.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

You will report for duty immediately.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

" One of the natives, who understood this tongue, then came forward saying: "My brother, be not surprised to see us; this is our land, and as we came to get water from the river we noticed your raft floating down it, and one of us swam out and brought you to the shore.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

He recognised that though Buddhism is undoubtedly a religion for decadents, its decadent values emanate from the higher and not, as in Christianity, from the lower grades of society.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One, like several which have preceded it, comes from London: the other by a cross-line from Aldbrickham; and from the London train alights a couple; a short, rather bloated man, with a globular stomach and small legs, resembling a top on two pegs, accompanied by a woman of rather fine figure and rather red face, dressed in black material, and covered with beads from bonnet to skirt, that made her glisten as if clad in chain-mail.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Chew the root of Pellitory of Spain, and chew it on both sides of thy mouth, and as the rheum falls down into thy mouth, spit it out, but retain the root there still, till you think the head is purged enough for that time.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

From similar comparisons in other European countries, M. Bertillon draws the final conclusion that the Teutonic race betrays a singular preference for this remedy for domestic ills.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

We will not, I said, be over-positive as yet; but if, on trial, this conception of justice be verified in the individual as well as in the State, there will be no longer any room for doubt; if it be not verified, we must have a fresh enquiry.
— from The Republic by Plato

Ordinarily I was riding the range five days in the week.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

These facts require further discussion in connection with their closest physiographic allies if we wish to show how the topography of today originated.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

Now, though large areas have been so dislocated that but little trace of the original valley formation appears, it is highly probable that the basin shape prevails over large tracts of the country; and as the strata on the slopes, where most of the rain falls, dip in toward the centre, they probably guide water beneath the plains but ill supplied with moisture from the clouds.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

During the month of July, 1922, there was received for delivery in New York City from foreign countries 3,372,767 letters and 2577 sacks of foreign papers.
— from The Postal System of the United States and the New York General Post Office by Thomas C. Jefferies

The fires were then relighted, the guard redoubled by the addition of the watchers, [pg 202] who were now relieved from duty in the forest, and the spectators retired to their bungalows for the night.
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

In September, 1883,—the last reunion,—however, they were able to say that the work was already in press, and would be ready for delivery in the course of a few weeks.
— from History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865 by Alonzo A. White

She had played me a trick—and if she had, she must have some bad reason for doing it.
— from The Motor Maid by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Under popular governments the remedy for discontent is free discussion; under despotisms it is repression.
— from The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams