Anyway, French and German people understand what I am trying to say, and that is very encouraging.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Hence it is evident that no man can judge others than his subjects and this in virtue either of delegated or of ordinary authority.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

That he is fair, and strong, and tall Is very evident to all,
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

It is not a vital matter that the female sex should be found to predominate in the pelagic catch, except in so far as it proves the falsity of the returns made so persistently by the Canadian sealing captain that the sexes are taken in virtually equal proportion at sea.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

The tide of self-preservation ebbed back into their bodies; with one accord they reared their arms upward across their faces to ward off the shock of that accursed sound, as though its very effluvium scorched its scar into their flesh.
— from The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

It has been conveyed away by a substance so attenuated that its very existence must for ever remain an hypothesis.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

It can only be carried safely in cold storage, and this is very expensive freight.
— from The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Department of Foreign Affairs

“We’ll go slow,” Steve said, “and take it very easy.”
— from Young Readers Science Fiction Stories by Richard M. (Richard Mace) Elam

Their design was suspected, and the intended victims escaped; but they wrote a courteous letter, stating the ground of their refusal.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack