they quarreled about a buffalow, and two bands left the village and went into the plains, (those two bands are now known bye the title Pounch, and Crow Indians.)
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

‘It’s an affecting thing,’ said Mrs. Markleham—‘however it’s viewed, it’s affecting, to see a fine young man one has known from an infant, going away to the other end of the world, leaving all he knows behind, and not knowing what’s before him.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Baligtad ang nahitabù kay inay silútan, gigantíhan na hinúun, Just the opposite happened: instead of being punished, he was rewarded.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A family of noble Venetians (Casa Badoero) built churches and gave dukes to the republic as early as the ninth century; and, if their descent be admitted, no kings in Europe can produce a pedigree so ancient and illustrious.
— 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

All that we can know empirically is approximate and liable to exceptions; the exact laws that are assumed in physics are known to be somewhere near the truth, but are not known to be true just as they stand.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Then the pale Queen looked up and answered her, 'Sir Lancelot, as became a noble knight, Was gracious to all ladies, and
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a shapeless pulp.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir, said Lamorak, then will I counsel you deal no more with him, for meseemeth by his countenance he should be a noble knight, and no japer; for methinketh he should be of the Table Round.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Then it got whispered around that she was our mascot, and carried the luck of the battery; and it was certainly RE-markable how it began to change, getting fresh beef quite regular and maple syrup to burn, and nine kegs of Navy pickles by mistake.
— from Love, the Fiddler by Lloyd Osbourne

Otherwise, indeed, it would only be a new kind of Utopianism.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo

Aŋ ìyákan naŋ maŋa bátaʾ ay nárinig ko sa kalsáda.
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

He is rapidly drifting away from the wharf. 'Oh, to think I had Marie in the boat, and never knew it!
— from Under St Paul's: A Romance by Richard Dowling

They were in the chests in the fore cabin where I had once been bound, and Nona knew nought of possible trouble on hand.
— from A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

Your vulgar diplomatist seldom knows how to begin, and never knows when to stop.
— from Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

In “The Mother’s Gift,” there is described well-brought-up Miss Nugent displaying to ill-bred Miss Jones, “a pretty large collection of books neatly bound and nicely kept,” all to be had of Mr. Thomas; and again Mr. Careful, in “Virtue and Vice,” “presented at Christmas time to the sons and daughters of his friends, little Gilt Books to read, such as are sold at Mr. Thomas’ near the Court House in Worcester.”
— from Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey

It's pretty nigh two hundred—there's more in the box, and nobody knows how much there was.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot