Like Blacktail he is not nearly so clever as Lightfoot the White-tail and so is more easily killed by hunters.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Nayland Smith lowered his wet face close to mine and shouted in my ear: "Kegan Van Roon never returned from China.
— from The Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

The start in modern electrical knowledge was made by Galvani, an Italian scientist, born in 1737, who just before the last century dawned showed that electricity can be produced by the contact of metals with fluids.
— from Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy

Nayland Smith lowered his wet face close to mine and shouted in my ear: “Kegan Van Roon never returned from China.
— from The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer

The last observation that I shall now mention of the Cardinal's is, "That a secret is more easily kept by a good many people, than one commonly imagines."
— from Letters to His Son, 1748 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

It is impossible to attempt here anything like representative quotation; I can only sketch in 49 roughest outline the main characteristics of English carol literature, and refer the reader for examples to Miss Edith Rickert's comprehensive collection, “Ancient English Carols, MCCCC-MDCC,” or to the smaller but fine selection in Messrs. E. K. Chambers and F. Sidgwick's “Early English Lyrics.”
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

"My embroidery is still my 'cheval de bataille,' and I fear it would suffer if my eyes keep too late hours."
— from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth

"The Dundonald secret in my exclusive keeping," concluded Wilhelm, "you can devote the Krupp plant in all future to the ideals of the pacifists; for the world, awed into submission and silence lest I make a vast Pompeii out of a rebel country—the world will be mine!"
— from The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp From the Papers and Diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'Alteville by Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer

—Virginia, southern Indiana, Missouri, eastern Kansas, south to the Gulf States and west to Texas.
— from Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana) by Charles Clemon Deam