Both eye and mind often need repose, and therefore the simpler the geometrical pattern is, the better.
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

[60] Many snakes which do not habitually live in trees, will climb them in search of birds’ eggs; and many others, not so agile in climbing, consume vast numbers of eggs from the nests of birds which build upon the ground.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

" I took the hint, my boy, and went after the Secretary; but the latter was so busy examining a model of Noah's Ark that he could not be seen.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

Had these penalties been inflicted upon those who had perpetrated the "cold-blooded murders" of the first few days, whose cry for vengeance had been voiced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it would have been equally a matter of national pride to see the culprits were yielded up to justice; but "it was not these murderers that were being pursued," as Dillon pointed out; it was the rank and file of the insurgents, and these had, by almost universal admission, behaved in a manner absolutely beyond reproach as fighting men.
— from Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics by Redmond-Howard, L. G., (Louis George)

I have never known him to do such a thing before, except at morning or night.
— from The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Not that the Danderine case is the first one in which Parke, Davis & Co. have been exposed as manufacturers of nostrum supplies.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

This must be either a matter of no importance to them, or they know how to close their ears effectually; otherwise, like myself, they would of a certainty be reminded of the ballet at the grand opera, in which those three instruments are heard in a like manner in the most voluptuous dances.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

From the “Life of John Bolles” we take the following:— I have before me a copy of the record of proceedings, in July, 1725, before Joseph Backus, Esq., a magistrate of Norwich, Conn., against Andrew Davis, John Bolles, and his son Joseph Bolles (a young man of twenty-four years), John Rogers (the younger), Sarah Culver and others, charged with Sabbath breaking, by which it appears that for going on Sunday, from Groton and New London, to attend Baptist worship in Lebanon, they were arrested on Sunday, imprisoned till the next day and then heavily fined, the sentence being that if fine and costs were not paid they should be flogged on the bare back for non-payment of fine, and then lie in jail till payment of costs.
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles