[170] CHAPTER XI LEARNING TURKEY LANGUAGE—WHY DOES THE GOBBLER GOBBLE To learn to imitate the cry of a turkey is no great feat, if you have something to call with and know the sounds you wish to imitate.
— from The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting by Charles L. Jordan

“Only the central one, and that is never golden, as in Italy.”
— from The Day of Temptation by William Le Queux

For a child of Abraham there is no glory except in the Lord's ways, and in them there is much glory.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

A fatal defect of this theory is that streaming occurs in a great variety of cells, myxomycete plasmodia, amebas, stamen hairs of Tradescantia , etc., in which no chloroplastids occur; and there is no ground for assuming that the causes of streaming in cells with chloroplastids is fundamentally different from that in other cells.
— from Ameboid movement by Asa A. (Asa Arthur) Schaeffer

But this again requires a mind of a certain order, and there is no greater mistake in literary work than to misjudge the quality and force of one's mind.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson