Cheer up, Sir Knight, I may help thee yet.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Herbert Spencer, inquiring what knowledge is of most worth, concluded that from all points of view scientific knowledge is most valuable.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

We should keep in mind, as I have before insisted, that the inherited effects of the increased use of parts, and perhaps of their disuse, will be strengthened by natural selection.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Mubahà ang sápì karung iliksiyun, Money will flow this coming election.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Indeed, it seems to me, that while Lucretia Mott may be said to be the soul of this movement, and Mrs. Stanton the mind, the "swift, keen intelligence," Miss Anthony, alert, aggressive and indefatigable, is its nervous energy—its propulsive force....
— 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

You will work, you will serve a sacred art.” “Don’t pretend, Nikolay Stepanovitch,” Katya interrupts me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I also spoke with Piggott too this evening before I went in to supper, and doubt that I shall meet with some knots in my business to-morrow before I can do it at the Court, but I shall do my best.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But I shall keep it mainly in my purpose to establish the connection between a naval force and commercial prosperity; and to show the nature of the necessity, and the degree of our capacity, to give to our maritime rights a maritime protection.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

I suspect from the number of insects caught by the English species of Drosera, and from what I have observed with some exotic species kept in my greenhouse, that the odour is attractive.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

"There were types of life the Atlantean system knew it might revive—life unmanifested to-day in any bodily form," was the sentence he caught with his return to the actual present.
— from Four Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood

Again, we should keep in mind: government-funded research brought supercomputers, the Internet, and communications satellites into being.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Bill Clinton

She knew it must be Mr. Borlase.
— from Mrs. Severn: A Novel, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mary Elizabeth Carter