She engaged Stephen and Abby Foster, Parker Pillsbury, Aaron M. Powell, Benjamin and Elizabeth Jones, Charles Remond and his sister Sarah, the last two educated and refined colored people; marked out routes, planned the meetings, kept three companies of speakers constantly employed, and spared herself no labor, no exposure, no annoyance.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Had my circumstances permitted me, I should have answered these words by an immediate journey to Paris; but I was obliged to act by the agency of a friend, who was upon the spot, and present at the opening of the will.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

As the representative of the Western church, Pope Martin and his Lateran synod anathematized the perfidious and guilty silence of the Greeks: one hundred and five bishops of Italy, for the most part the subjects of Constans, presumed to reprobate his wicked type, and the impious ecthesis of his grandfather; and to confound the authors and their adherents with the twenty-one notorious heretics, the apostates from the church, and the organs of the devil.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius perceived Cosette on an altar.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

We could, perhaps, manage the men; but the women, sir!—the women!
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

E io: <costui; poi mi farai, quantunque vorrai, fretta>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

And I perhaps am secret: Heaven is high, High, and remote to see from thence distinct Each thing on Earth; and other care perhaps May have diverted from continual watch Our great Forbidder, safe with all his spies About him.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Nobody can pay me back for anything I do; the most that can be done is to make me the victim of another action.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

238 Best, 198 , 201 Brazil, 198 , 205 Costa Rica, 225 Federated Malay States, 238 Venezuela, 212 Soliman Aga, 91 Soliman the Great, 18 , 19 Sollmann, q. , 182 , 183 Soluble coffee, 404 , 406 Brands, 470 , 538 , 539 History of, 538 , 539 Kato's patent, 471 Processes, 169 U.S. Army war needs, 539 Washington's patent, 471 Soluble Coffee Co., 539 Somers, A.L., 507 Songs of Brittany , 548 Sons of Liberty, 120 Sorenson, John S., 520 Sorenson & Nielson, 482 , 520 Sorley, William, 480 , 491 Sorting machinery, 245 Sorver, Damon & Co., 485 Soulie, 102 Soup, Coffee, 177 Sour ( see Flavors ) South Sea bubble, 571 , 572 Southern boom (1904), 530 Southern Coffee Mills, Inc., 505 Southern Coffee Polishing Mills, 505 Southern Cross, v. , 316 Southern Pacific Co., 489 Souvestre, Emile, q. , 565 Spatula ( see Roasting machinery ), 616 Specialty stores, 415 , 421 Spectator , per.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

If I discuss questions of government I must secure the coöperation of a majority before I can put my ideas into practise, but if, in speaking on religion, I can touch one human heart for good, I have not spoken in vain no matter how large the majority may be against me.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

“If you feel disposed to risk a doubloon—I am but a poor hunter, and cannot place more—I shall attempt what a muchachito of ten years would consider a feat perhaps.”
— from The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid

The probabilities appear to be that they are of Miocene age; and if so, the trachytic lavas, which in Antrim are older than those containing plants, may be referred to a still earlier epoch—namely, that of the Eocene.
— from Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull

They took there fifteen pieces of cannon, Prince Maurice's magazine of arms and ammunition, Prince Rupert's baggage, above fifty persons of quality and officers.
— from Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe

It was evident that the plethoric hamper, she had seen filled by her usually careful provision merchant and left at [169] his stand in the market to be delivered at her door early in the forenoon, had miscarried, or been overlooked.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

An instant later the charwoman passed me, flying down the passage, white faced and tremulous, while the terrible voice thundered behind her.
— from Round the Fire Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

Co. (PWH) Mar37.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1964 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office