I can cordially recommend this book to all. Rose A. Wigglesworth , Lowell, Mass. When I commenced reading “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” I could sit up but a very short time, and could not eat the most simple food without great distress.
— from Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy

If the King of France took into his head to choose his august partner from among his subjects, the administration could not even tell him the number of white lambs from whom he could make his choice.
— from Analytical Studies by Honoré de Balzac

Whilst satisfying the youthful longing for adventures they inspire admiration for straightforwardness, truth and courage, never exceed the bounds of veracity, and in many ways are highly instructive.
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

The people eat in common, but for convenience' sake they are divided, so that a certain number eat together.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

A fierce fight it was that raged all day with varying fortunes and glorious display of chivalry and knightly daring, where Bajazet the Lightning struck swift and sure, though a Christian noble ended the conqueror’s career when the fortunes of the day had just turned in his favour.
— from The Walls of Constantinople by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker

He was a police trooper, and a bushman born, and knew that the rustlers' laden horses would find some difficulty in remounting the steep trail and could not escape to left or right, once they were entangled amidst the trees.
— from Winston of the Prairie by Harold Bindloss