So it may be well to remind parents of this fact and to urge them especially to avoid in the lives of the children, first, the beginnings of those lighter ailments which frequently grow into menacing habits—for example, the diseases that become chronic as a result of unnecessary exposure to the weather—and second, those various contagious diseases which so often permanently deplete the health of children, such as scarlet fever and whooping cough.
— from Farm Boys and Girls by William A. (William Arch) McKeever

Now, with a rush of unaccustomed emotions, the national imagination sought out its own past, luxuriating in it, not to say wallowing in it.
— from Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Carl Van Doren

And thus it will necessarily be with us till we lay the axe to the root of the tree, till we deny and renounce the whole corruption of our nature, and resign ourselves up entirely to the Spirit of God, to think and speak and act by the wisdom and the purity of religion.’
— from Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte

The social problem of maintaining the just relation between constitution, government, and people, has been found so difficult, that human history is a record of unsuccessful efforts to establish it.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

No knee or Achilles reflex obtained upon either the affected or the healthy side (general exhaustion?).
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

Two or three of Sir Giles's myrmidons, having been selected for particular description, the designations of some others must suffice—such as Staring Hugh, a rascal of unmatched effrontery; the Gib Cat and Cutting Dick, dissolute rogues from the Pickt-hatch in Turnbull Street, near Clerkenwell; old Tom Wootton, once a notorious harbourer of "masterless men," at his house at Smart's Quay, but now a sheriffs officer; and, perhaps, it ought to be mentioned, that there were some half-dozen swash-bucklers and sharpers from Alsatia, under the command of Captain Bludder, who was held responsible for their good conduct.
— from The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 by William Harrison Ainsworth

But it needs no prophet to foresee that beneath this rubbish are veins of golden ore which will amply repay our utmost efforts to open up.
— from Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" by Frederick St. George De Lautour Booth-Tucker

Those whom we love have absolute rights over us, even the right to cease loving us.
— from Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Romain Rolland