A doctrine which advocates indifference to wealth and to the comforts of life, and a contempt for suffering and death, is quite unintelligible to the vast majority of men, since that majority has never known wealth or the comforts of life; and to despise suffering would mean to it despising life itself, since the whole existence of man is made up of the sensations of hunger, cold, injury, and a Hamlet-like dread of death.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Shipments from Venezuela showed a drop in quantity of nine percent as compared with 1920 imports, being 59,783,303 pounds valued at $6,798,709; in 1920 they were 65,970,954 pounds valued at $13,802,995; and in 1919, they were 109,777,831 pounds valued at $23,163,071.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"What sort of stories?" asked Diana, in quite a cheerful voice.
— from A Little Mother to the Others by L. T. Meade

The lands are cleared for planting cotton in the usual manner,—by cutting down the trees and burning them; and the holes for the seeds are dug in quadrangular form at the distance of six feet from each other.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

" Slightly raising himself from his position on the roof, Crick lifted the flagstaff from its socket, and drew it quickly beneath the trap-door. "
— from The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)

I've just got to do something and do it quick.”
— from Old Judge Priest by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

A township is divided into thirty-six sections, each one mile square, and containing six hundred and forty acres of land; and sections are divided into quarter sections.
— from Elements of Civil Government A Text-Book for Use in Public Schools, High Schools and Normal Schools and a Manual of Reference for Teachers by Alexander L. Peterman

The fall didn't hurt much though, on account of the snowdrift being pretty deep, but we had to do something and do it quick.
— from Shenanigans at Sugar Creek by Paul Hutchens

You could smoke and drink in quiet, yarn, or else soliloquise, With a decent lot of fellows in the Shanty on the Rise.
— from In the Days When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses by Henry Lawson