There are so many aspects to be considered in dinner giving that it is difficult to know whether to begin up-stairs or down, or with furnishing, or service, or people, or manners!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Thus a square may always be divided easily into two triangles, and the sum of two consecutive triangulars will always make a square.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

So away home, and there after signing my letters, my eyes being bad, to supper and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

With Master Simon, however, they all seemed more at their ease.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

The captain, for her comfort, told her that he had seen her brother bind himself “to a strong mast that lived upon the sea,” and that thus there was hope that he might be saved.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A halt was called at Oxford with the advance seventeen miles south of there, to bring up the road to the latter point and to bring supplies of food, forage and munitions to the front.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He would not admit that a serious man, preparing for a scientific career, a stay-at-home, should brush aside his book and rush to the theatre for the sake of meeting an unintellectual, stupid girl whom he hardly knew.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The second test is, that although such machines might execute many things with equal or perhaps greater perfection than any of us, they would, without doubt, fail in certain others from which it could be discovered that they did not act from knowledge, but solely from the disposition of their organs: for while reason is an universal instrument that is alike available on every occasion, these organs, on the contrary, need a particular arrangement for each particular action; whence it must be morally impossible that there should exist in any machine a diversity of organs sufficient to enable it to act in all the occurrences of life, in the way in which our reason enables us to act.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

The God encouraged me, frightened and chilled with my body all trembling, and scarcely myself, saying, ‘Shake off thy fear, and make for Dia.’
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Besides that all secret men are men soon terrified, here were surely cards enough of one black suit, to justify the holder in growing rather livid as he turned them over.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

If they are, show me the Bishop who dare assert his Christianity in the House of Lords, when the ministry of the day happens to see its advantage in engaging in a war!
— from The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins

Public opinion required that Dr. Gaston should employ a Protestant servant; no one else was obliged to conform, but the congregation felt that a stand must be made somewhere, and they made it, like a chalk line, at the parson's threshold.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Uncle Billy saw the change in her and he grew vaguely uneasy about her—she dreamed so much, she was at times so restless, she asked so many questions he could not answer, and she failed to ask so many that were on the tip of her tongue.
— from The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Fox, John, Jr.

(But they ate so much of the bread and butter and jam and cream that they could not eat the cake.)
— from Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine

The methods employed in the preparation of the tea are somewhat modified in their details in the different tea districts of China and Japan.
— from Food Adulteration and Its Detection With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix by Jesse P. (Jesse Park) Battershall

There are so many points in common.
— from From a Girl's Point of View by Lilian Bell

They are so many various views of the soul according as we regard it from an intrinsic, an altruistic, or an egoistic standpoint.
— from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell

There are so many disturbing things constantly occurring on the stage to throw one off one's track.
— from Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke

It is generally agreed there are still many large caches buried on the island.
— from The Padre Island Story by Pat Reumert