Before the fall of Donelson, but after that of Henry, I received, at Benton Barracks, the following orders: HEADQUARTERS THE DEPARTMENT OF MISSOURI St. Louis, February 13, 1862 Brigadier-General SHERMAN, Benton Barracks: You will immediately repair to Paducah, Kentucky, and assume command of that post.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

When all th’ united states of Greece combin’d, To purge the world of the perfidious kind, Then was your time to fear the Trojan fate: Your quarrels and complaints are now too late.”
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

When Lady Henry Somerset learned through Miss Florence Balgarnie that this letter had been published she informed me that if the interview was published she would take steps to let the public know that my statements must be received with caution.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

She was silent for some minutes; at last she said— "There's wise folks, happen, as know how it all is; the parson knows, I'll be bound; but it takes big words to tell them things, and such as poor folks can't make much out on.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Mutadluk (magtadluk) tag pila ka buuk, We will let a few coconuts sprout into seedlings.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

eit' authis diatemein prôton men ton plêrê kai deixai, pôs exakontizetai to Pg 60 Greek text ouron ex autou, kathaper en tais phlebotomiais to haima, meta tauta de kai ton heteron authis diatemein kapeit' epidêsai to zôon exôthen, amphoterôn diêrêmenôn, || 38 eith' hotan hikanôs echein dokê, lysai ton desmon.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

And as the idea came upon me of his possibly turning out a long-lived man, and keep occupying my chambers, and denying my authority; and perplexing my visitors; and scandalizing my professional reputation; and casting a general gloom over the premises; keeping soul and body together to the last upon his savings (for doubtless he spent but half a dime a day), and in the end perhaps outlive me, and claim possession of my office by right of his perpetual occupancy: as all these dark anticipations crowded upon me more and more, and my friends continually intruded their relentless remarks upon the apparition in my room; a great change was wrought in me.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

To extend our mere physical inquiry still farther into the phenomena of nature, after this perfect knowledge, would be to suppose erroneously, that, in the compounds before us, of which we know every element, there is some element, not yet discovered, or, in the well-known successions of events, some antecedent or consequent as yet unobserved; or it would be to inquire without any real object of inquiry,—a sort of investigation, which, for two thousand years, was almost the sole employment of the subtile and the studious, and which is far from having perished, with those venerable follies of the schools, at which we know so well how to smile, even while we are imitating them, perhaps, with similar errors of our own.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown

They learn, instead, every step in the primitive keeping of their homes—spinning, weaving, lace-making and all the rest of the thousand arts that with us are represented by the corner delicatessen and the department store.
— from The Black Ghost of the Highway by Gertrude Linnell

In legal documents the prefix Para denotes a Paraiyan, e.g. , Para Kanni, the Paraiyan Kanni, but this is a purely clerical formula.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Because the public knew nothing of "Lefty" Louie, or "Gyp the Blood," or even of the late Lieutenant Becker, it was common gossip that the criminals lurked in the neighborhood, and that, in order to avoid suspicion, they would appear among the chief mourners.
— from The Log of a Noncombatant by Horace Green

Her mind turned back to her own grievance, and she was just saying to herself that nothing on earth should prevent her letting the Princess know what she thought of her, when the lady in question at last appeared.
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

File: 046.png CHAPTER III—PEGGY’S MASTERPIECE Peggy was bending absorbedly over her desk one evening biting her pen and then writing a bit and now and then crossing out part of what she had written, all with a kind of seraphic smile that puzzled Katherine more and more until she finally just had to speak about it.
— from Peggy Parsons, a Hampton Freshman by Annabel Sharp

And the frequent discussion with Perrault of plans depending on the possession of the Trevorsham property, kept the consciousness of his purpose before her, and as debt and desperation grew, she was more and more sure of it.
— from Lady Hester; Or, Ursula's Narrative by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The effects are all that people know, and they hold fast to them on the supposition that those unknown causes, which were sufficient to bring them about, will also be able to maintain them as they are.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

These people know that almost every foot of their land holds the bones or dust of a corpse, and this remnant of a race, overwhelmed by tragedy, can look on death only as a relief from the oppression of alien and unsympathetic white men.
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien