Fechner calls attention to the appearance of stars: “At night everybody sees the stars, in daylight not even Sirius or Jupiter is seen.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Before delivery, do not fail to go over your manu script and note every sound that may possibly be mispronounced.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The inhabitants of Sirius are not exactly strangers to us, at least not in the sociological sense of the word as we are considering it.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

There’s little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then, for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

We arranged to spend an evening together for old time's sake, and when I agreed to dine with him, he proposed that he should ask nobody else, so that we could chat without interruption.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Tobacco and rage had worn his teeth short, and nearly every sentence that escaped their compressed grating, was commenced or concluded with some outburst of profanity.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

As I was saying, this ridiculous girl was sent to school and no expense spared to make a lady of her."
— from Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

Nycteris lay quite still, and never even saw the animal.
— from Stephen Archer, and Other Tales by George MacDonald

She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and wak'd herself with laughing.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

The man who prides himself upon the correctness of his professional creed and pious standing bestows kind words of sympathy and nothing else, sending the suffering brother or sister, “ill-clad and short of daily food” (Moffatt), out into the bitter cold and shutting the door with a sense of satisfaction after such pious platitudes as, “Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled.”
— from Studies in the Epistle of James by A. T. Robertson

The story about nimeþ eowre Seaxas = take your daggers , and the deduction from it, that Saxons meant dagger-men , is of no great weight; with the present writer, at least.
— from The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

The effect of such works as these is admirable; not only in showing veneration for the great dead, but also upon the living, in purifying the heart and ennobling its impulses." "Baltimore, indeed, has set a noble example," said the lady.
— from The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns. Volume 1 (of 2) by William Alexander Caruthers

On the walls of her unique and beautiful temple at Dayr el Baharee, we see a naval expedition sent to explore the unknown land of Punt, the Somali country on the East coast of Africa near Cape Guardafui 600 years before the fleets of Solomon, and returning laden with foreign woods, rare trees, gums, perfumes and strange beasts.
— from Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird

Many had not slept all night, ever since the report had run like fire through the little town last evening, that the sentence had been delivered to the prisoner.
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

Let me here say that I have found traces of his steps at nearly every site that I have visited.
— from The French in the Heart of America by John H. (John Huston) Finley

There’s no elder son and nobody else, so Tom will inherit all the property when the old lady hooks it.
— from Caught in a Trap by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson