The next time you see a bird that you have once identified, you will probably remember its name, and in this way you will be surprised to find how rapidly your bird acquaintance will grow.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

“I see you are an incorrigible,” said the master, with a chuckle; “but I refute you by an example.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

"Gad," Archer heard Lawrence Lefferts say, "not one of the lot holds the bow as she does"; and Beaufort retorted: "Yes; but that's the only kind of target she'll ever hit.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

He told me also, that there was; L100,000 offered, and would have been taken for his restitution, had not the Parliament come in as they did again; and that he do believe that the Protector will live to give a testimony of his valour and revenge yet before he dies, and that the Protector will say so himself sometimes.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In exactly the same way, as the citizens of our Industrial Republic become refined, year by year the cost of slaughterhouse products will increase; until eventually those who want to eat meat will have to do their own killing—and how long do you think the custom would survive then?—To go on to another item—one of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption; and one of the consequences of civic administration by ignorant and vicious politicians, is that preventable diseases kill off half our population.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The particulars of this great event are darkly and imperfectly represented; yet, by the glimmering light which is afforded us, we may discover a long series of imprudence, of error, and of deserved misfortunes on the side of the Roman emperor.
— 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

Adieu, my dear Sir; the time now approaches when I hope once more to receive your blessing, and to owe all my joy, all my happiness, to your kindness.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Come to my assistance without running any risk yourself; back these three bills of exchange.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

You have heard about the Opera ghost, have you not, Raoul?" "Yes, but tell me what happened when you were on the white horse of the Profeta?" "I made no movement and let myself go.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Iid-id ang ímung bukubuku sa sandigánan, Rub your back against the chair.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

His father could not make him lord of any state, unless it were a portion of the territory of the Church: and though, by creating, as he did, twelve Cardinals in one day, he got the Sacred College to sanction his investiture of the Duchy of Romagna, yet both Venice and Milan were opposed to this scheme.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

They who are of a celestial spirit shall receive the same body which was a natural body; even ye shall receive your bodies, and your glory shall be that glory by which your bodies are quickened.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1 Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

But I have for the present repaired your blunder.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

But if I can’t find him—if I can’t prove him to be alive—if I can’t account for those spots of blood on the night-gown, the accidental circumstances of the case remain unexplained—your mistress’s rash language, the bad terms on which she has lived with her husband, and her unlucky disregard of appearances in keeping up her intercourse with Mr. Meeke, all tell dead against us—and the justice has no alternative, in a legal point of view, but to remand you both, as he has now done, for the production of further evidence.”
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

It has been aptly likened to that of the American economist who once remarked to the manager of an English railway: "You Britishers are handicapped by having to build your railway lines through cities and towns.
— from The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon

Oh, we read your books, sir, out in South Africa, I can tell you—Well—er—and here we are—and I'm monopolizing the conversation.
— from Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston

‘My dear Sir,—Will you permit me to remind you, by means of this letter, of the notes of introduction presented recently by me to you, and written by our friends, ———— and —————, in America?
— from The New Abelard: A Romance, Volume 3 (of 3) by Robert Williams Buchanan

must have reached you by this time.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

Again, it seemed to him that he caught the gleam of a round, yellow ball of light, such as one sees when looking toward a cat in the dark.
— from Panther Eye by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

I, John Bairdieson, am the only officer of the seenod left; therefore I stand atween the people and you this day, till ye hae gane intil the seenod hall, that we ca' on ordinary days the vestry, and there, takkin' till ye the elders that remain, ye be solemnly ordainit ower again and set apairt for the office o' the meenistry."
— from The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett