" "That will I not do, even to mine own brother," answered the Tinker.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

These were the Egyptians, they said, and then other cavalry, other bowmen; all were in national divisions, each nation marching in densely-crowded squares.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The two last years of the peace were in no degree equal to these.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The result of his experiment had answered all the expectations of his policy; for the Hurons were in no degree exempt from that governing principle of nature, which induces man to value his gifts precisely in the degree that they are appreciated by others.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The assurance of your support and protection in regard to Madame Duval, though what I never doubted, excites my utmost gratitude.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

〉 G REATE and goode if she deryde mee Let me walke Ile not despayre, Ere to morrowe Ile provide mee One as greate, lesse prowd, more faire.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

As the proverbe sayeth, ‘that nature gyveth maye not be taken away.’ ” If it be argued that the study of Natural Science may injure a woman’s character, I would answer, in the words of one of the purest-minded women I know, that “if a woman’s womanliness is not deep enough in her nature to bear the brunt of any needful education, it is not worth guarding.”
— from Medical Women: Two Essays by Sophia Jex-Blake

This paper, which is now defunct, except in a weekly edition, was the organ of Syndicalism and rebellion in general.
— from G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West

Was it not decidedly enough to have spoken to the latter, especially when she undertook to answer for the former?
— from Heart: A Social Novel by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Before marriage, they have received from their mothers and the world they live in the baptism of good manners; though women of rank, anxious to hand down their traditions, do not always see the bearing of their own lessons when they say to their daughters: “That is a motion that must not be made;” “Never laugh at such things;” “No lady ever flings herself on a sofa; she sits down quietly;” “Pray give up such detestable ways;” “My dear, that is a thing which is never done,” etc. Many bourgeois critics unjustly deny the innocence and virtue of young girls who, like Sabine, are truly virgin at heart, improved by the training of their minds, by the habit of noble bearing, by natural good taste, while, from the age of sixteen, they have learned how to use their opera-glasses.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

They often had to hide from the watchful Indians, not daring even to make camp-fires lest they should be discovered.
— from Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

In reply, the men who entertain an innate contempt for woman answer, "Yes"; those who are moved by the extreme opposite of sentiment have arrived at the bitter, though chivalrous, thought, "Better the non-existence of the human race than the continued sacrifice of its womankind"; while even the sons of the golden mean in judgment go so far as to say that not only the already acquired benefits of civilization, but finer ones and more abundant, can from now on be attained by some other process, which will involve no degradation either to workingman or to woman, and which in structural principle and human effects will differ as much from civilization as civilization itself differed from the barbarism and savagery which preceded it.
— from Is civilization a disease? by Stanton Coit

Well, I never did, either.
— from The Motor Boys Overland; Or, A Long Trip for Fun and Fortune by Clarence Young

I had provided myself with a pair that I was assured was exactly like those particular boots which fitted the tracks and which the police had taken away with them, and I found that there was indeed no difference, except for the matter of an extra nail or two on the soles.
— from The Ashiel mystery: A Detective Story by Bryce, Charles, Mrs.

Because the water is not deep enough, she can not come close to the shore; so a row-boat must take the people out to her.
— from Our Pilgrim Forefathers: Thanksgiving Studies by Loveday A. Nelson