“We had cold tongue and chicken and strawberry preserves, lemon pie and tarts and chocolate cake and raisin cookies and pound cake and fruit cake—and a few other things, including more pie—caramel pie, I think it was.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Sallust, in his letters “De Republicâ Ordinandâ,” attributes these words to Appius Claudius Cæcus, a Roman poet whose works are now lost.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

For the expenses of this intended journey, the child carefully gathered and kept her little treasures, a coral comb, a ring with a tiny brilliant, etc., etc.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

When the ship was running nine knots an hour, these animals could cross and recross the bows with the page 40 greatest ease, and then dash away right ahead.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

I never hear washy talk about “changed characters” and “reformed natures” but I think of a sermon I once heard at a Wesleyan revivalist meeting in the Black Country.
— from Novel Notes by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

In order, therefore, to insure the preservation of his chef d’œuvre to all time, he combines with the annals certain censures and righteous decisions which [648] should render it at once a history and a text-book of moral lessons; and in giving the book to his disciples, “It is by the Chun Tsiu ,” he said, “that after-ages will know me, and also by it that they will condemn me.”
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

When cold, add the almonds, citron, cherries, and raisins, a sherry-glass of brandy, the same of maraschino, and put the whole into a freezer and freeze from ten to fifteen minutes.
— from French Dishes for American Tables by Caron, Pierre, active 1886-1899

When we held the Atlantic City convention a resolution was passed at that meeting requesting the same thing.
— from Proceedings, Third National Conference Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents by National Conference on Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents

In puppies they are called Convulsions, and resemble epileptic fits.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton