Even in her lifetime she is receiving something of the reward to which her fidelity to principle entities her.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Schopenhauer in reply said, "Life is a difficult question; I have decided to spend my life in thinking about it."
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

often, oft; ofttimes[obs3], oftentimes; frequently; repeatedly &c. 104; unseldom[obs3], not unfrequently[obs3]; in quick succession, in rapid succession; many a time and oft; daily, hourly &c.; every day, every hour, every moment &c. perpetually, continually, constantly, incessantly, without ceasing, at all times, daily and hourly, night and day, day and night, day after day, morning noon and night, ever anon, invariably (habit) 613. most often; commonly &c. (habitually) 613.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“We strive in races, sir, to see who of us shall be fleetest.”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

A final -c or -g unites with -s and forms -x ; thus iūdec + s = iūdex , rēg + s = rēx .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

"By God the great Sancho is right," said Doctor Recio, "and we should let him go, for the duke will be beyond measure glad to see him."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The soil is rather stony; everywhere you see great heaps of those which have been picked off the fields.
— from Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sergeant: It runs south through York, because I can see that the northern end starts near the head of a valley and goes down into the open plain.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

At this most distressing time, the gale grew more violent than ever; heavy seas swept over from stern to stem, in rapid succession; the main hatch-house was stove to pieces; both galley doors were stove in, and the sea dashed through, putting out the fires, washing away provisions and important utensils, and hurling the steward out against the bulwark, and almost overboard; nearly all the remaining planks of the bulwarks were torn away; the wheel-house began to go to pieces; the lower fore top-sail was blown to ribbons; and the ship broached to—that is, came round into the trough of the sea, and lay with her side to the wind and waves.
— from John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch Or The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-legged Soldier after the War by A. F. (Ashbel Fairchild) Hill

Such is, rhetorically speaking, the history of architecture of Spain.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them by Charles Rudy

Benha is now a somewhat important railway station about thirty miles north of Cairo.
— from The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela by Benjamin, of Tudela, active 12th century

Children are long of seeing, or at least of looking at what is above them; they like the ground, and its flowers and stones, its “red sodgers” and lady-birds, and all its queer things; their world is about three feet high, and they are more often stooping than gazing up.
— from Spare Hours by John Brown

Of knights, Thomas baron of Hilton, sir William Persie, sir William Bulmer, sir William Gascoigne, sir Rafe Bigod, sir Rafe Bowes, sir Thomas a Parre, sir Rafe Ellecker, sir Iohn Constable, sir Iohn Ratcliffe, sir Iohn Sauill, sir Thomas Strangweis, and a great number of other knights and esquiers besides.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt by Raphael Holinshed

The Athenian stronghold has long ceased to be a fortress, though still it rises steep and strong.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis