Presently she produced the oilskin packet, and asked me if I recognized it, watching me like a lynx all the time.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

It is well known, that at Berenice, a city of the Troglodytæ, and 4820 stadia beyond that city, in the same country, at the town of Ptolemais, which was built on the Red Sea, when the elephant was first hunted, this same thing takes place for forty-five days before the solstice and for an equal length of time after it, and that during these ninety days the shadows are turned towards the south 510 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

“There are two other points,” said Mr. Lorry, “on which I am anxious to be instructed.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The first of these objections, which I shall take notice of, is more proper to prove this connexion and dependence of the one part upon the other, than to destroy either of them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The general subject to a well-wish'd king Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love Must needs appear offence.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I guess we all like to have (I am sure I do) some one who presents those sides of a thought, or possibility, different from our own—different and yet with a sort of home-likeness—a tartness and contradiction offsetting the theory as we view it, and construed from tastes and proclivities not at all his own.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

“And then,” said Aramis, with the tone of philosophical indifference which he had assumed since he had belonged to the church and in which there was more atheism than confidence in God, “what is the use of thinking of it all?
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

L. 121): “We will destroy no city of the Amphictyony, nor cut off its streams in peace or war; if any shall do so, we will march against him and destroy his cities; should any pillage the property of the god, or be privy to or plan anything against what is in his temple, we will take vengeance on him with hand and foot and voice and all our might.”
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

“I fancy he keeps a bicycle shop in time of peace,” explained Tuppence.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

It is the same case with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be found in every other branch of learning, except the sciences of quantity and number; and these may safely, I think, be pronounced the only proper objects of knowledge and demonstration.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Matthew had it in his mind that God would treat us very much as we treated other people; and that in the next world he would treat with kindness those who had been loving and gentle in their lives.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Everybody has made haste to disown them, and there has been a general effort on the part of Federalist sympathizers to throw the blame for them on persons unknown.
— from George Washington, Volume II by Henry Cabot Lodge

This description of the action of the Old Poor Law is certainly correct; relief fosters laziness and increase of “surplus population.”
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels

In a few words Mona told of Peter's visit; and then, standing so near that he could not avoid the directness of her eyes, she gave low voice to her suspicion that either he or Peter was planning to kill Aleck Curry.
— from A Gentleman of Courage: A Novel of the Wilderness by James Oliver Curwood

“Near to the top, these two centuries, as the testimony goeth, brought down to us through our predecessors.”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

I shall see again the times when the Damiens, in the name of the parliaments, as one party says, in the name of the Jesuits, as the other party says, and, what is more true, in the name—”
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

Many thousands of people were watching her from a distance.
— from The Blood of the Arena by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

You sit in that old prayer-stool and look at the work.”
— from The Virgin of the Sun by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The same holds good for the osmotic pressure, and for all the constants which are proportional to the molecular concentration of the solute.
— from The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc

[5] edge of God—as imparting the only power to heal the sick and the sinner, we shall demonstrate in our lives the power of Truth and Love.
— from Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy