It was M. Jannet who in our days first restored the pure and exact text of Rabelais, not only without retouching it, but without making additions or insertions, or juxtaposition of things that were not formerly found together.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Since the time of Ramond no one who speaks of the Pyrenees can describe a site without declaring it to be incomparable.
— from A Book of the Pyrenees by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

It seems to me that our countrymen must either love music in all sincerity, or they display an odious, stupid, and affected coldness, while an Italian throat sings just as it comes, in a straightforward way, though perhaps for the sake of money,—but still not for the sake of money, and æsthetics, and criticism, and self-esteem, and the right school, and twenty-seven thousand other reasons, none of which really harmonize with their real nature.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

According to our rules, no one was to shave or eat pan until our first victim fell; and as this was a matter of inconvenience to many of the men, you may be sure we had our eyes in all directions, and our scouts well occupied in every village we passed through or halted at.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

The officer rose, not one whit less amiable.
— from Crooked Trails and Straight by William MacLeod Raine