With its rich mines of copper and its forests of firs and stately cedars, the island naturally attracted a commercial and maritime people like the Phoenicians; while the abundance of its corn, its wine, and its oil must have rendered it in their eyes a Land of Promise by comparison with the niggardly nature of their own rugged coast, hemmed in between the mountains and the sea.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He had his way with mankind at all times; or rather conscience had its way with him at all times in his relations with mankind.
— from Fresh Fields by John Burroughs

The whole trend of recent criticism has, in his case, been to destroy not to fulfil.
— from Giorgione by Herbert Frederick Cook

At the door, Roland stops him, picks up the one remaining chair, hands it over to him and says: SP: "CABLE HER SOME ROSES WITH THIS!"
— from Breaking into the movies by Anita Loos

“Thou honest guinea that would not be stolen!” cried poor Lorraine, as he returned and picked up the one remaining coin; “haply I shall never own another honest guinea.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

As to our Red Cross hospitals, I know of a person who can make things easy for you.
— from Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston

Some thousands of reindeer came home in the morning, which were milked by the men as well as the women, who kneeled down on one knee.
— from Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linné

They would speculate upon it, perhaps trace it and in that way know that one Robin Carew had, in death, been the first to reach the Moon.
— from One Against the Moon by Donald A. Wollheim