If Shakespeare had been born and bred on a barren and unvisited rock in the ocean his mighty intellect would have had no outside material to work with, and could have invented none; and no outside influences , teachings, moldings, persuasions, inspirations, of a valuable sort, and could have invented none; and so Shakespeare would have produced nothing.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

On the same day, I wrote to General Schofield at Chattanooga: Hood is not at Dear Head Cove.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

As such, and created, he is near of kin to that august Being in whoso image he was created.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

The second annual convention, held in New York, November 13–15, 1912, showed that the association had grown to a membership of 135 firms located in all parts of the country, and that its influence had extended throughout the whole trade.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The sea around Cape Hatteras is notoriously rough in a gale, and the outlook was not promising when they sighted Hatteras Light that evening.
— from Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns; Or, Sinking the German U-Boats by Halsey Davidson

In the finals, Syme and Cady had it neck and neck to this same ninth, when the scholastic runner struck the timber so heavily as to break it, but recovered in time to see Cady go somersaulting over the tenth.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various

Having thrown out the foregoing remarks for the information of the general reader, and of persons who look to Australia with the more earnest views of selecting a colonial home, I now return to the immediate object of these volumes; but before entering on the narrative of my own expeditions, I think it necessary to advert cursorily to the discoveries previously accomplished.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete by Charles Sturt

God lives not on Mount Gerizim or at Jerusalem: but in every place he hears the prayers of the sincere and contrite heart, in no place will he regard the offerings of the proud and evil.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

The results are in agreement with the hypothesis presented and confirm the theoretical deduction that very dilute bleach solutions are completely hydrolysed if no salts are present that will dissociate and increase the OH′ concentration.
— from Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race

But it's an awfu' shame aboot Coristine; had it no' been for his magneeficent pluck, fleein' on yon scoundrel like a lion, I'd hae been brocht hame as deed as a red herrin'.
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

Then she was in another street and could hear it no more.
— from Arethusa by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

"How far was you from the parties?" Such a construction, however, is not supported by good usage, nor by analogy.
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham