There are gold men, and tin men, and copper men, and leaden men, and steel men, and so on—and each has the limitations of his nature, his heredities, his training, and his environment.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Accordingly, the following spring, cotemporaneously with General Otis’s final departure from Manila to the United States, in which free country he might say the war was over as much as he pleased without being molested with round-robins by Bob Collins, O. K. Davis, John McCutcheon, and the rest of those banes of his insular career, who so pestiferously insisted that the American public ought to know the facts, the Taft Commission was sent out, to “aid” General MacArthur, as the Schurman Commission had “aided” General Otis.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

R. Fields came with them and gave me an account of his & Drewyer's hunt, and informed me that Drewyer was still at their camp with the meat they had dryed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

'Tis thy want alone that keeps thee in health of body and mind, and that which thou persecutest and abhorrest as a feral plague is thy physician and [3753] chiefest friend, which makes thee a good man, a healthful, a sound, a virtuous, an honest and happy man.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Stems in -ā- are declined as follows: Example Stem mēnsa , table , mēnsā- , F. Stem and case endings Singular Nom. mēnsa table , a (or the ) table -a Gen. mēnsae a table’s , of a table -ae Dat.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

This approximation grows more and more nearly exact as the difference grows less; in technical language, the laws of perspective account for the differences to the first order of small quantities, and other laws are only required to account for second-order differences.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The water of the streams is so cool and refreshing, that a good morning and evening ablution makes me comfortable for several hours, as well as contributing to keep me in health.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

But he looked on them as great millionaires are apt to look on those who have small incomes; as men who have Sophocles at their fingers' ends regard those who know nothing of Greek.
— from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

A skilful doctor does not invariably prescribe for all alike, but for each according to his state, taking into consideration climate and complaint, season and age, giving one remedy to a child, another to a grown man, according to his age; one thing to a weak patient, another to a strong; and to each sufferer the right thing for his state and malady: one thing in the summer, another in the winter, another in the spring or autumn, and in each place according to its requirements.
— from St John Damascene on Holy Images (πρὸς τοὺς διαβάλλοντας τᾶς ἁγίας εἰκόνας). Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (κοίμησις) by Saint John of Damascus

I would take astronomical observations whenever I could, so that I might know my latitude and longitude, and I took a great many at Mayolo.
— from The Country of the Dwarfs by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

He took a good mouthful, and she followed.
— from Wyoming by Edward Sylvester Ellis

He begins by informing the spectators that he is about to show them a great mystery, a production of nature on which no human being has ever yet set eye, and which, when they have once seen, no human being will ever set eyes on again.
— from Entertainments for Home, Church and School by Frederica Seeger

All through the cold weather the sap keeps hidden quietly away in the roots; but in the spring when the air grows mild and pleasant, it begins to stir and move upward again.
— from Bessie in the City by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

Trot out your desperate thing and get me an axe.
— from At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch

I had not been a week at New York before I had this assurance given me at least twenty times, and I felt inclined at first to believe it: but I soon discovered that this feeling was only confined to a small minority, and that the feelings towards England of the majority, or democratic party, were of deep irreconcilable hatred .
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

People from other towns, and from all the country round, came to Gershom that day, and many a kindly word was spoken of the dead, and many a tale told of good deeds done in secret, of friendly help and counsel given in time of need, and all agreed that a good man and true had gone to his rest from among them, and that not many like him were left behind.
— from David Fleming's Forgiveness by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson