He told him also that when he went into the cabin he would find his brother lying inside nearly dead on account of the presence of the uktena’s scale, but he must take a small piece of cane, which the Red Man gave him, and scrape a little of it into water and give it to his brother to drink and he would be well again.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

As the story went on, the cause of this position of affairs appeared to be a blonde lady (if not Darya Pavlovna I don’t know of whom Stepan Trofimovitch could have been thinking), this blonde owed everything to the brunette, and had grown up in her house, being a distant relation.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I meant to tell my tale plainly, and make my proposals openly: and it appeared to me so absolutely rational that I should be considered free to love and be loved, I never doubted some woman might be found willing and able to understand my case and accept me, in spite of the curse with which I was burdened.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The value of the most barren land is not diminished by the neighbourhood of the most fertile.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The morning's bag of one early riser, riding six miles and back to a nine o'clock breakfast, late in November, dwindled rapidly from 12 to 6, 4, 2.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

"You mean, start watching my back, like I never did before?
— from Tinker's Dam by Joseph Tinker

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
— from Thoughts on Art and Life by da Vinci Leonardo

The rough expanse of democratic sea Which parts the lands that live by liberty Is no division; for their hearts are one.
— from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke

The affair is, however, only regarded as valid upon the ground of necessity; and thus exacting more than the interest allowed by law is not deemed usury.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

I never fully realized before what our Western country must be like; I never dreamed that there was a place to flee to when the conventions of society grew irksome; but when you told me of your ranch, and the cowboys, and all the wonderful happenings of that wild and carefree life I—I made up my mind to chuck the whole thing, don't you know, and strike out for myself."
— from Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge

Mr. Dyson in becoming more national does not become less individual; nor does he for the first time become serious.
— from Australia at War A Winter Record Made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres, During the Campaigns of 1916 and 1917 by Will Dyson

Improved transportation brought lumber into North Dakota, and frame shanties and houses were built.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota