And yet it seems as if there were some obstacle rooted in the nature of animals or in the powers of man, for the date of the adoption by man of the few domesticated species lies in remote, prehistoric antiquity.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

So groaned Sir Lancelot in remorseful pain, Not knowing he should die a holy man.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

[Pg 670] It is not without significance that the vital statistics of Sweden were the first to give whooping-cough something like its rightful place among infantile causes of death: from 1749 to
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

It was an old man with a silver beard, and a machine with which he stamped leather into round pieces of silver, in his opinion.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

Cornwall, valuable mines in, 658 ; suffered little in recent pressure, 659 ; parsons and clerks in, 662 .
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

"Pray don't speak so loud," I replied, putting as much force and command into my voice as I possibly could.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 38, February, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

It was always probable, therefore, that information would be scarce in the Federal camps, and that if some items did get through the cavalry screen, they would be so late in reaching Pope’s headquarters as to be practically useless.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

It is so difficult for a woman to imagine that one whom she loves is really prone to evil.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

In the former story love is resistless passion; in the latter its virtue- and valour-bestowing qualities appear.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

It was a vegetable much liked by those who could get it, and this is the potato of which one of Shakespeare's characters says, 'Let it rain potatoes and hail kissing comforts.'
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

Seaward, an impressionist sketch of Whistler's: Southampton Water and historic Portsmouth Harbour; stretches of glittering sand with the sea lying in ragged patches on it here and there like great pieces of broken glass.
— from Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson