You are a clever man; and a practical man; but you understand no more about poetry than that cask yonder.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Besides California, the new Development of Western America territory included the subsequently admitted States of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

In the past four years, we provided tax relief to every person who pays income taxes, overcome a recession, opened up new markets abroad, prosecuted corporate criminals, raised homeownership to its highest level in history, and in the last year alone, the United States has added 2.3 million new jobs.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

We are all of us well, and none of us no more, as perhaps you may suppose, except poor Mr. Ram.—of course you know of his disease, it was quite unexpected, with a spoonful of turtle in his mouth—the real gallipot as they call it.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

Alis anticis brunneis strigâ longitudinali subcostali luteâ, fasciâque transversali dilutâ, strigis undulatis nigris marginatis, angulis posticis productis; posticis fulvis margine latè nigro.
— from Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3 by Dru Drury

But you know," he added with a smile, "that we Huguenots, as you call us, acknowledge no authority against the clear operation of reason, looking upon no man as perfect but one.
— from The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

All this is not the poetry of th Renaissance peasant; it is the poem made out of his reality; the songs which Valléra sang in the fields about his Nencia we must seek in the volume of Tigri; those rispetti and stornelli of to-day are the rispetti and stornelli of four centuries ago; they are much more beautiful and poetic than any of Lorenzo's work; but Lorenzo has given us not merely a peasant's love-song; he has given us a peasant's thoughts, actions, hopes, fears; he has given us the peasant himself, his house, his fields, and his sweetheart, as they exist even now.
— from Euphorion - Vol. I Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance by Vernon Lee

You are a capital man, a practical man, but you understand no more about poetry than does that cask yonder."
— from What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Uous nauiez mie allé, pourquoy nauiez uous mie allé.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés