The purpose, however, of the only book I know on the subject was not to illustrate the forms of tombs, but that of the objects found in them, and to trace the ethnographic relations of the people who possessed them with the other tribes who at various times inhabited that district.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, organised by Ismail , Khedive of Egypt.
— from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 3 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens

The only bandit I know of in these mountains is Fakat Zol, the Black Ghost.
— from The Black Ghost of the Highway by Gertrude Linnell

The horse snorted and went on, shaking me almost to pieces, and sometimes I was nearly off on one side, sometimes nearly off on the other, but I kept on.
— from Burr Junior by George Manville Fenn

He can sing one night in Ivan the Terrible and freeze you to the marrow by his interpretation of the grim, half-insane, majestic, and frenzied King; and the next night give you a picture of calm and serene saintliness in the part of the old Believer in Khovantincha ; or in the Barbier de Seville he can be comic with a rollicking gusto.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

Locke says in his Thoughts on Education that "the only book I know of fit for children is Æsop's 'Fables' and 'Reynard the Fox.'"
— from Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

'Gosh, you've been in warm places, young fellers,' said the other, 'but I kind o' think it's a case of out of the frying pan into the fire.'
— from On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by T. C. (Thomas Charles) Bridges

The gentry, too, may lay claim to old blood: I know of some Norman gentlemen whose fathers undoubtedly came in with the Conqueror.
— from The Earl of Beaconsfield by James Anthony Froude