But the art of peeling an orange so as to hold its own juice, and its own sugar too, is one that can scarcely be taught in a book.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

He proposed that the Glee Club Quartet of Fisk spend the summer at the hotel in Minnesota where he worked and that I go along as "Business Manager" to arrange for engagements on the journey back.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

It was, therefore, with the greatest pleasure that I accepted Mr. Gosse’s invitation to contribute a volume to this series of Literatures of the World ; for this appeared to me to be a peculiarly good opportunity for diffusing information on a subject in which more than twenty years of continuous study and teaching had instilled into me an ever-deepening interest.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

“The count will never do such a thing; he is too careful of his dignity.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As soon as they heard it they set about their twofold labour, some to gather the corpses, and others to bring in wood.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Cook, if in a good temper, could sing comic songs, and the housemaid, if she happened not to be offended with you, could imitate a hen that has laid an egg, a bottle of champagne being opened, and could mew like two cats fighting.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

that his fortune is very small, and that he is chiefly dependent on an elder brother and on the profession he has chosen!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

'Well,' said I, 'friend, but will they let you come on board after you have been on shore here, when this is such a terrible place, and so infected as it is?' 'Why, as to that,' said he, 'I very seldom go up the ship-side, but deliver what I bring to their boat, or lie by the side, and they hoist it on board.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

“Now the first letter can only be A, which is a most useful discovery, since it occurs no fewer than three times in this short sentence, and the H is also apparent in the second word.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The second night she proposed to stay at the hotel in Calas, a suburb of Amarillo.
— from Frances of the Ranges; Or, The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe

He should admit that he is mistaken.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

I am very frank to say that, as a small boy, the moment of dismission from the church service, after three hours indoors, was a very happy one, and the event usually awaited with pleasure as the crowning circumstance of the function.
— from John Chambers, Servant of Christ and Master of Hearts, and His Ministry in Philadelphia by William Elliot Griffis

I told him patiently enough that there is no ceremony among the Seminoles—that the man goes forth to the home of the girl at the setting of the sun, and that he is then as legally her husband as if all the courts in Christendom had tied the knot.
— from Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple

But if he can not or will not do this,—if on any pretence or no pretence he shall refuse or omit it then I shall be fully convinced of what I more than suspect already that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong; that he feels the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to heaven against him; that originally having some strong motive—what, I will not stop now to give my opinion concerning to involve the two countries in a war, and trusting to escape scrutiny by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory,—that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Sully, advice to Henry IV., i. 13. Sumner, Dr., Head-master of Harrow, iii. 217.
— from A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

The Tavistock road is taken till the Dart is passed at New Bridge, then after a steep ascent the highway is abandoned before Pound Gate is reached, and a turf drive runs above the Dart commanding its gorge, the Holne coppice, and Benjie Tor, and the high road is rejoined between Bell Tor and Sharp Tor.
— from A Book of the West. Volume 1: Devon Being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Here Governor Spottwood allotted them homes in Spottsylvania County.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente