It has been suggested that Voltaire, in speaking of red sheep, referred to the llama, a South American ruminant allied to the camel.
— from Candide by Voltaire

This is not so bad in my view, in spite of regional sentiments to the contrary, because we do need a common language to foster communications between people the world over.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In multiplying another very important sort of rude produce, the quantity of fish that is brought to market, it is likewise both limited and uncertain.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The same may be said of the tiger lily, on account of the very inharmonious shade of red it wears; yet if you have a half-wild nook, somewhere that a dozen bulbs of it may be tucked in company with a bunch of the common tall white phlox that flowers at the same time, you will have a bit of colour that will care for itself.
— from The Garden, You, and I by Mabel Osgood Wright

Such experiences are related also to each other; they stand in a vast independent system of relations, which, as we have seen, the man of science can study without troubling himself to consider sensations at all.
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

A very interesting sketch of Red Jacket as an orator, refers, for the existence of the facts which form the basis of its statements, to a treaty held at Canandaigua in 1794.
— from An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard

A Pause, otherwise called a rest, is an absolute cessation of the voice, in speaking or reading, during a perceptible interval, longer or shorter, of time.
— from The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue by Percival Leigh

But as I shall never sink this Paper so far as to engage with Goths and Vandals, I shall only regard such kind of Reasoners with that Pity which is due to so Deplorable a Degree of Stupidity and Ignorance.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

You may arrive at this point, look you, as easily after ten months as ten years of wedlock; it depends upon the speed of the vessel, its style of rigging, upon the trade winds, the force of the currents, and especially upon the composition of the crew.
— from Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part by Honoré de Balzac

I now turn to the very important subject of Roads .
— from India and Indian Engineering. Three lectures delivered at the Royal Engineer Institute, Chatham, in July 1872 by J. G. (Julius George) Medley

There's a far bell ringing, And a phantom voice is singing Of renown for ever clinging To the great days done.
— from The Book of Art for Young People by Conway, William Martin, Sir

Professor Hows , during the last month, has given a very interesting series of readings from Shakspeare, in which he has displayed not only the finest capacity for histrionic effect, but a critical sagacity, and a thorough knowledge of the greatest of the poets, which justify his own reputation.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various