I admit that there may be unnecessary niceties in ceremonious etiquette, but whether it partakes as much of folly as the adherence to ever-changing fashions of the West, is a question not very clear to my mind.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

But why be acquainted with us now?" "I can explain this too," cried Mrs Smith, smiling.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

E prima ch'io a l'ovra fossi attento, una natura in Cristo esser, non piue, credea, e di tal fede era contento; ma 'l benedetto Agapito, che fue sommo pastore, a la fede sincera mi dirizzo` con le parole sue.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

If neither the universe nor its Creator existed, these eternal unchangeable, and necessary truths would exist, unperceived and unknown.
— from Absurdities of Immaterialism Or, A Reply to T. W. P. Taylder's Pamphlet, Entitled, "The Materialism of the Mormons or Latter-Day Saints, Examined and Exposed." by Orson Pratt

In the region in front of the primitive streak, where the first trace of the embryo will shortly appear, the layers at first undergo no important changes, except that the hypoblast becomes somewhat thicker.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

The Central Committee of the Unions now issues cheap editions of the choicest literature for children and young people.
— from Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel Peter Orth

It is always this same woe that crops up: nothing I can ever think can account for what has been decreed.
— from An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman

Shall us?” “No, indeed!” cried Eve.
— from The Room with the Tassels by Carolyn Wells

Artillery might think that unless guns were largely used, no infantry could ever make an attack at all; while cavalry officers, who were perhaps the most conservative of all, would point to the past, and show how every battle that had ever been fought was won by cavalry, and ever would be.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various

“As all arts are at first imperfect, it is observed of these clocks that they sometimes deceived; and hence, in the Ordo Cluniacensis Bernardi Mon., the person who regulated the clock is ordered, in case it should go wrong, ‘ut notet in cereo, et in cursu stellarum vel etiam lunæ, ut fratres surgere faciat ad horam competentem.’
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann