Yes, several; dining-room on top floor; lightning elevator; all right going up empty, but coming down full was rather a trial.
— from The Terms of Surrender by Louis Tracy
There is no need to seek reasons for Thy will; for with Thee, against all natural reason, all things are possible: so that thou teachest clearly there is no need of anything but of loving Thee [ 16 ] in earnest, and really giving up everything for Thee, in order that Thou, O my Lord, might make everything easy.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint
But this we do believe, that “wisdom is justified by her children,” [157] and we venture to anticipate that all that is holy, beautiful, and fitting in nature will shine with a renewed glory upon earth as the dawn grows to the perfect day, before the temporal gives place to the eternal, and the Son of Man shall have delivered up the kingdom to the Father.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various
Those of us who didn't sit up late at night making a racket, got up early in the morning to do so, and vice versa.
— from A House Party with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
Even a regular "gorge" upon early apples or watermelon or cake or ice cream will not give you half so bad, nor so dangerous, colic as one little piece of tainted meat or fish or egg, or one cupful of dirty milk, or a single helping of cabbage or tomatoes that have begun to spoil, or of jam made out of spoiled berries or other fruit.
— from A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson
And he went about his duties, storming and persuading, fighting and tending, with new fires in his heart which shone out of his eyes, and his people all acknowledged that he was "a rare good un," even when he was scarifying them about manure-heaps and stinks, which they suffered as tolerantly as they did his vehemence, and as though such a thing as typhus had never been known in the land.
— from The Coil of Carne by John Oxenham
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