On the 5th May, Teresa wrote: “Before thanking you for your charming letter, my very kind uncle, I should announce the issue of our pension of one hundred and sixty crowns a year, which is to say, eighty crowns apiece; I am well satisfied for I did not hope to receive so much.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless, in the same exact condition as in the most sterile hybrids.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

In the dungeon tower room given her it is said she was at first chained in an iron cage in which it was impossible to stand erect; certain it is that shackles were always on her feet, a chain round her waist by which she was padlocked to a beam.
— from The Mentor: Joan of Arc, v. 3, Num. 22, Serial No. 98, January 1, 1916 by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

28 When in the same election campaign Hughes went West, and the West turned to Wilson
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore

"I wonder if the smugglers ever come here now," I said.
— from Highway Pirates; or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne by Harold Avery

That man, being a worshiping animal by nature, ought to maintain certain relations to the Supreme Being, was indeed to some extent conceded by the naturalistic school, but religion itself we looked upon as a thing to be spontaneously generated by the evolution of character in the laboratory of common life.
— from Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond

He saw from what height of genius they achieved their command; but that was two thousand years before, and that was in the south east corner of Europe; and when the Modern Europe began to think for itself, it was found that the Greeks could not give the law any longer.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

What is the southern extremity called?
— from The Boston School Atlas, Embracing a Compendium of Geography by B. Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) Edmands

His quaint sayings and wonderful love of the truth, added to extreme cleanliness, made him welcome in the somewhat exclusive circle in which my housekeeper, Mrs. Wilson, reigned supreme.
— from J. Cole by Emma Gellibrand