In kind, in a control, in a period, in the alteration of pigeons, in kind cuts and thick and thin spaces, in kind ham and different colors, the length of leaning a strong thing outside not to make a sound but to suggest a crust, the principal taste is when there is a whole chance to be reasonable, this does not mean that there is overtaking, this means nothing precious, this means clearly that the chance to exercise is a social success.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

In this disposition I continued for near a year after this; and so far was I from desiring an occasion for falling upon these wretches, that in all that time I never once went up the hill to see whether there were any of them in sight, or to know whether any of them had been on shore there or not, that I might not be tempted to renew any of my contrivances against them, or be provoked by any advantage that might present itself to fall upon them; only this I did: I went and removed my boat, which I had on the other side of the island, and carried it down to the east end of the whole island, where I ran it into a little cove, which I found under some high rocks, and where I knew, by reason of the currents, the savages durst not, at least would not, come with their boats upon any account whatever.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

And again the robbers stirred up the people to make war with the Romans, and said they ought not to obey them at all; and when any persons would not comply with them, they set fire to their villages, and plundered them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Here she is now; swear the oaths now to her that you have sworn to me.—What, are you gone again?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Can you also say how many steps the officer needed to catch the thief?
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

“I am resolved,” said the other, “never to consult with any physician who has not taken his degrees at either of the English universities.”
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

For how much it hurts and hinders the licensers themselves in the calling of their ministry, more than any secular employment, if they will discharge that office as they ought, so that of necessity they must neglect either the one duty or the other, I insist not, because it is a particular, but leave it to their own conscience, how they will decide it there.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

Thus said, he turnd, and Satan bowing low, As to superior Spirits is wont in Heaven, Where honour due and reverence none neglects, Took leave, and toward the coast of Earth beneath, Down from th’ Ecliptic, sped with hop’d success, Throws his steep flight with many an Aerie wheele, Nor staid, till on Niphates top he lights.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

"Then," says the old novelist, "the young knights and the young ladies began to play their instruments and to have the dance."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

In the Homopterous section there are several types of neuration; thus the Fulgoræ resemble the Orthoptera in this respect; while the Tettigoniæ F., &c., approach nearer to the Hymenoptera and Diptera , and have their apical areolets circumscribed within the margin by a traversing nervure; in Flata , &c., the areolets are mostly formed, not by traversing nervures, but by the branching of the longitudinal ones; in this respect they are not unlike the Lepidoptera .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

But you said something the other night that I don't see yet."
— from John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment by Dan B. (Dan Brearley) Brummitt

He had sent forward a second scratch team over night to a village half way, and here they changed horses, while he and his party spent half an hour pleasantly enough exploring an old gray church and humble graveyard, where the tombstones all bore record of unrenowned lives that had slowly rusted away in a pastoral solitude, Blanche, whose schoolroom appetite was wont to damp its keen edge upon bread and butter at this hour, felt it rather a hard thing that no one proposed a light refection at the lowly inn; but she bore her inward gnawings in silence, conscious of the dignity of a frock which almost reached her ankles, and desirous to prove that she was worthy to be the associate of grown-ups.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

There are usually two cane seats, one at the stern, the other near the bow.
— from On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls by Lina Beard

He is larger, stouter, and heavier built than the female; his eyes are so enormous that they seem to occupy nearly the entire head, and he has some well-defined tufts of hair on the end of the abdomen.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

Angels and warriors and saints and sibyls stand separate, the one never touching the other, apart, each alone against the pale greenish background.
— from Belcaro; Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee