Americans now live who shall not go down into the grave till they have left behind them a republican government; and no republic is republican that denies to half its citizens those rights which the Declaration of Independence and a true Christian democracy make equal to all.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

About this time a rumor got about that many people were moving to new parts.
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

How did the commander of this aquatic residence go about it?
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Throwing a retrospective glance at the past history of our financial administration, and reviewing in our minds its gradual development, we receive an extremely satisfactory impression.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is a belief of the villagers that such a devil child, when brought in contact with the air, rapidly grows, and causes great trouble, usually killing the mother, and sometimes killing all the inmates of the house.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The captain stared at me in amazement, but was presently convinced that I was indeed speaking the truth, and rejoiced greatly at my escape.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

It is, however, still no more than a rough generalization, a statistical average.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Equally little does this view explain why for several centuries the collective will is not withdrawn from certain rulers and their heirs, and then suddenly during a period of fifty years is transferred to the Convention, to the Directory, to Napoleon, to Alexander, to Louis XVIII, to Napoleon again, to Charles X, to Louis Philippe, to a Republican government, and to Napoleon III.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Comets, out of question, have likewise power and effect over the gross and mass of things; but they are rather gazed, and waited upon 601 in their journey, than wisely observed in their effects, especially in their respective effects; that is, what kind of comet for magnitude, color, version of the beams, placing in the region of heaven, or lasting, produceth what kind of effects.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

As previously stated in discussing the raid of six to eight hundred thousand dollars a year made upon the postal service revenues by this “free in county” matter, the department’s reported figures for it are little more than a robust guess at its tonnage, even now, and the figures given for 1907 are much less trustworthy than are the department’s estimates and guesses for the fiscal year ended in 1910.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

"She manages me and the farm too." "And reason good as I should manage you, father," said Priscilla, "else you'd be giving yourself your death with rheumatism.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Theres no good and bad; but by Jiminy, gents, theres a rotten game, and theres a great game.
— from The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw

The spicy epigrams ended in a challenge, but Cheetham made such haste to adjust matters that a report got abroad of his having shown the white feather.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

Jacky pointed to a rising ground at least six miles off.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade