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— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Yes; I see no reason for further concealment.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The essential reason for false conception is to be found only in the fact that our first hasty view was incorrectly inducted, and hence, led to illusions like those of the theatre.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

As a blind species of Bathyscia is found in abundance on shady rocks far from caves, the loss of vision in the cave species of this one genus has probably had no relation to its dark habitation; for it is natural that an insect already deprived of vision should readily become adapted to dark caverns.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Hamilton's doctrine that the soul is present to the whole body is at any rate false: for cognitively its presence extends far beyond the body, and dynamically it does not extend beyond the brain.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

She will always have rich food, fine clothing and an easy time, with nothing to do but enjoy herself, while if she had remained at home she must have married some poor man who might or might not have treated her well, and for whom she would have to work like a slave.
— from Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People by Isaac Taylor Headland

It remained for Francis C. Lowell of Boston, who had been studying the art of spinning and weaving in England and Scotland and the inventions of Arkwright and Crompton, to establish in 1813 at Waltham, Mass., with the aid of Paul [Pg 299] Moody, machinist, the first factory in the world wherein were combined under one roof all the processes for converting cotton into cloth.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

[526] L. Munatius Plancus, who had received favours from Cæsar, and the province of Transalpine Gaul, with the exception of Narbonensis and Belgica B.C. 44.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

King Edward, on his return from France, conferred on Thomas the honour of knighthood, with the title of Sir Thomas Assheton of Ashton-under-Line.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby