U. Üb' immer Treu und Redlichkeit / Bis an dein 15 kühles Grab —Be sure thou always practise fidelity and honesty till thou lie in thy cold grave.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

If, however, I hear that near a hostelry in X, a peasant was robbed by two traveling apprentices I immediately get an image which contains not only the unknown region, but also the event of the robbery, and even perhaps the faces of those concerned.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

So I began again to gamahuche her; this time it took a longer effort to produce the ultimate result; but apparently with still greater effect, and a more copious discharge.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

As a matter of fact, if any one were anxious to deny altogether that there are such things as universals, we should find that we cannot strictly prove that there are such entities as qualities , i.e. the universals represented by adjectives and substantives, whereas we can prove that there must be relations , i.e. the sort of universals generally represented by verbs and prepositions.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Faster and ever faster the universe rushed by, a hurry of whirling motes at last, speeding silently into the void.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The lower rule is replaced by a cog-wheel, C (Fig. 223); the cylinder by a cog, B , running round it; and the upper rule by a ring, A , with internal teeth.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Shall I attempt the Downs, and fatigue myself to death in climbing up an eternal ascent, without any hopes of reaching the summit? Know then, I have made divers desperate leaps at those upper regions; but always fell backward into this vapour-pit, exhausted and dispirited by those ineffectual efforts; and here we poor valetudinarians pant and struggle, like so many Chinese gudgeons, gasping in the bottom of a punch-bowl.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

We had our victuals dress'd, and brought to us regularly by a woman in the neighborhood, who had from me a list of forty dishes, to be prepar'd for us at different times, in all which there was neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, and the whim suited me the better at this time from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteenpence sterling each per week.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

There is a fine and beautiful nature hidden behind it, as all know who have read the Uncle Remus book; and a fine genius, too, as all know by the same sign.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

I began to feel self-reproachful, as I thought of my motive, but it was not easy to find an excuse, the usual “rather busy,” and when I tried I could see Aïda Sewin’s clear eyes reading my face, and there was the faintest glimmer of a smile about her lips that seemed to say plainly: “I don’t believe a word of it.”
— from A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford

The unbidden remembrance brought a new shame with it for that old offence, even while it intensified the sudden remorse he felt for the present one; since Jeanie, in all her sweet maidenhood, had never seemed so hedged about from evil as this Brynhild, whose very womanhood had been hidden beneath her glittering armour of mail.
— from Red Rowans by Flora Annie Webster Steel

"Would you say, then," he continued, "that the Unitarian really believes as God's word that which he professes to receive, when he passes over and gets rid of so much that is in that word?"
— from Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

It seemed therefore all the more important that the IIIrd Army should be set in motion as early as possible, for one [10] thing to protect the right bank of the Upper Rhine by an advance on the left; for another, to cover the left flank of the IInd Army during its advance.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

His reasoning is throughout closely syllogistic: he is alternately the jurist, the theologian, the scholastic metaphysician: the poet of the Divina Commedia is betrayed only by the compressed energy of diction, by his clear vision of the unseen, rarely by a glowing metaphor.
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

As early as 1861 gold discoveries were made on the Stikine river; repeated discoveries, culminating in the Cassiar district ``boom,'' were made in British Columbia from 1857 to 1874; colourings along the Yukon were reported in 1866-1867 and systematic prospecting of the upper river began about 1873.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The museum of the Casino has many of these unstable records, but a change was immediately made in favour of five-franc pieces, louis, and notes of the Banque de France, which are no more likely to be counterfeited for playing the tables at Monte Carlo than they are for general purposes of trade.
— from Rambles on the Riviera by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

The country swam in tears; the Danish land became a name of shame; the rich were plundered; the sun of the royal house was dimmed, and every department of the Government was given up to unscrupulous robbers, blasphemers and enemies of humanity.”
— from A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

Not only are they loaded with the usual rings, bracelets, armlets, and anklets, but they pierce the nose in three places to adorn it with trinkets.
— from Peeps at Many Lands—India by John Finnemore

We ascended to the upper rooms by a blind staircase that might have belonged to a turret of one of our ancient castles, which conducted us into a Gothic room, where we found neither the ghost nor the armour of William Tell; but an artist at work with the pencil; with two or three young men, his pupils, from Altorf.
— from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Dorothy Wordsworth