Si Risal mau ang átung nasudnung bayáni, Rizal is our national hero.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Let us at first make entire abstraction of all psychological considerations tending to show, that any of the mental differences supposed to exist between women and men are but the natural effect of the differences in their education and circumstances, and indicate no radical difference, far less radical inferiority, of nature.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

On this propensity, so deeply rooted in our nature, a specific dramatic probability may be raised by a true poet, if the whole of his work be in harmony: a dramatic probability, sufficient for dramatic pleasure, even when the component characters and incidents border on impossibility.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

42 The language quoted is that employed by Robert Collins, Associated Press Correspondent, in connection with the Round Robin incident of nine months previous, described in the concluding part of the chapter preceding this.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Yet how clear it is to me that those are not the born results, influences of Nature at all, but of one's own distorted, sick or silly soul.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Though the Romans, upon the expulsion of Tarquin, made an essential change in the political form of the state, they did not carry their detestation of regal authority so far as to abolish the religious institutions of Numa Pompilius, the second of their kings, according to which, the priesthood, with all the influence annexed to that order, was placed in the hands of the aristocracy.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Ruy Blas talks of M, de Priego as ‘sujet du roi’ instead of ‘noble du roi,’ and Angelo Malipieri speaks of ‘la croix rouge’ instead of ‘la croix de gueules.’
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

When two are doing it, they get chattering, and forget, and the boat itself, offering, as it does, but little resistance, is of no real service in reminding them of the fact.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

This mighty turf pit, measured from the bottom of certain ravines, is often not less than seventy feet deep, and presents to the eye the view of successive layers of black burned-up rocky detritus, separated by thin streaks of porous sandstone.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

In Afrique, and in the West Indies they are small, that a man may cut them with a knife, and the lesser the better: but in Brazill, they are so great, that with difficultie a man can fell them with an axe, and the greater the better; one foote within the top is profitable, the rest is of no value; and that which is to be eaten is the pith, which in some is better, in some worse.
— from The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt, in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593 Reprinted from the Edition of 1622 by Hawkins, Richard, Sir

—When the eighteenth century drew to a close, Kentucky had a population larger than Delaware, Rhode Island, or New Hampshire.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

One felt, "whether he received it or no, here is the man who can wear the crown."
— from Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Quiller-Couch

"It really is of no use carrying on a deception when no object is to be gained by it," said Mr. Kenge, smoothly.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various

On August 23, 1853, 16 presidents, 1 vice-president, and 21 cashiers, representing 38 banks, assembled in the directors' room of the Merchants' Bank, and at this meeting a resolution was passed providing that "a committee be appointed to [Pg 358] procure or hire a suitable room in or near Wall Street, for the purpose of holding meetings of the officers of the city banks; that the said committee be requested to submit a plan, at an adjourned meeting of this body, to simplify the system of making exchanges and settling the daily balances; and that when a room is procured or hired for the above purpose, the presidents or cashiers be requested to meet weekly until a plan is agreed upon."
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

Unfortunately something went wrong, and the rope, instead of neatly uncoiling, flailed round the trench like a young anaconda, and, catching a harmless spectator by the leg, hurled him twenty feet in the air.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Various

The Esquimaux, and the Red Indian of North America, inhabiting the same country, shew an entirely distinct habit of breed.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew

He appears to have retired into the country and devoted himself to medical practice and study, and to have taken up his residence in or near Clitheroe.
— from Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

What I meant to show was that while boys are young and full of the rising impulses of nature they very rarely can have acquired sufficient spiritual belief to make them refrain from indulging in certain pleasures—or what seem pleasures to them—merely because they have been told these pleasures are wrong.
— from Three Things by Elinor Glyn

He is rather glad and relieved if only natives will remain natives and strangers strangers, and at a comfortable distance from himself.
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana