As it thrives upon carrion and decay, it is held to be immune from sickness, especially of a contagious character, and a small quantity of its flesh eaten, or of the soup used as a wash, is believed to be a sure preventive of smallpox, and was used for this purpose during the smallpox epidemic among the East Cherokee in 1866.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The Sorrow which appears so easily at the Eyes, cannot have pierced deeply into the Heart.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

As Tallyrand remarks, "Everybody comes to see everybody at the Exchange Coffee House....
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

His body shakes and throbs like a runaway steam engine, and the ear cannot follow the flying showers of notes—there is a pale blue mist where you look to see his bowing arm.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

One of these attestations is still extant; and the emperor Cantacuzene, the protector of his adversaries, is forced to allow, that Euclid, Aristotle, and Plato, were familiar to that profound and subtle logician.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Among signed examples are the Euphronios cup in Berlin (2282); those by Sotades and Hegesiboulos (p. 445), and also Mon.
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

The night air cooled his brow, and recalled him to sober earnest and the eighteenth century.
— from The Castle Inn by Stanley John Weyman

The dangerous but remunerative contraband trade had been a case in point; he had refused to allow any native of Faloo to buy liquor; he had even safeguarded the native servants employed at the Exiles’ Club.
— from The Exiles of Faloo by Barry Pain

The church bell was rung in the shaky edifice, and the emaciated colonists assembled and heard the “zealous and sorrowful prayer” of Chaplain Buck.
— from Captain John Smith by Charles Dudley Warner