They don't know a single Russian custom, a single Russian song except "Lutchinushka," and that only because it is played on the barrel organs.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This possessed the heads of the people very much, and few cared to go through Drury Lane, or the other streets suspected, unless they had extraordinary business that obliged them to it This increase of the bills stood thus: the usual number of burials in a week, in the parishes of St Giles-in-the-Fields and St Andrew's, Holborn, were from twelve to seventeen or nineteen each, few more or less; but from the time that the plague first began in St Giles's parish, it was observed that the ordinary burials increased in number considerably.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Virgil anticipates the objection before it is fully expressed, and reminds him that the passage through Inferno is to be only one stage of his journey.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

We spent the morning almost wholly upon considering some way of keeping the peace at the Ticket Office; but it is plain that the care of that office is nobody’s work, and that is it that makes it stand in the ill condition it do.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And this order, by its intrinsic immutability, restricts things mutable which otherwise would ebb and flow at random.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

The opinion is the world’s, truly, but it may be called theirs as a man would call a book his, having bought it; he did not write the book, but it is his; they did not originate the opinion, but it is theirs.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In view of the fact that cod liver oil is practically a specific for human rickets, Hess and Unger tried the effect of this oil both in infantile scurvy and in that of guinea-pigs.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Man has a finer and more capable machine in him than those others, but it is the same machine and works in the same way.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The coupé extends across the whole coach, from one side to the other; but it is quite narrow.
— from Rollo in Switzerland by Jacob Abbott

For his own well-being, it is to be hoped that the former is the case, for, notwithstanding abundant evidences of his graceful narrative style and ability at vivid portraiture of character, the story adds little, if anything to his achievements.” – + Springf’d Republican p17 O 21 ‘17 900w “It is a long book and closely thought out; but it is always interesting to read, because Mr Winston Churchill writes with a discernment which is based on knowledge.”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

St. Columba was a monk of the seminary of Clonard in Ireland, whence towards the close of the sixth century he passed over to the continent, founding the Abbeys of Luxeuil and Fontaine, near Besançon, and later that of Bobbio, in Italy, where he died in 615.
— from Gothic Architecture by Edouard Corroyer

"Ah, there you ask me more than I can answer," replied the other; "but, if I dare guess, I believe the League has an eye upon you.
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff

It is not fitting then that we should go forth on an expedition against those from whom we trace our descent, nor that ye should set yourselves in opposition to us by rendering assistance to others; but it is fitting that ye keep still and remain by yourselves: for if things happen according to my mind, I shall not esteem any people to be of greater consequence than you."
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

The difference between them is not in the way they originate, but it is their diffusion and propagation, in short, tradition .
— from On the Future of our Educational Institutions; Homer and Classical Philology Complete Works, Volume Three by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He had watched her grow up with a joy that had a touch of bewilderment in it—she seemed to grow so quickly—and had been fonder and prouder of her at every stage of her tumultuous career.
— from Jill the Reckless by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

It cannot, alone, keep them open, but it is worth a good deal to get inside.
— from The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Braddy Henney

The next day was one of the general holidays that are so profusely celebrated in Australia:—I do not remember the occasion, but it is safe to assume that some important horse race was to be run at Flemington—the Epsom of the Antipodes.
— from True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural by Sidney Dickinson