‘And the Wild Wooders have been living in Toad Hall ever since,’ continued the Rat; ‘and going on simply anyhow!
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Burbages leased it to Henry Evans for the performances of the Children of the Chapel, and the King’s Servants acted there after the departure of the children.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

"And the Wild Wooders have been living in Toad Hall ever since," continued the Rat; "and going on simply anyhow!
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

It'll haud them awa' for the time bein', though it can profit but little i' the him 'er en'."
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

I speak of his versatile recognition of men, one by one, for the sake of that portion of good, be it more or less, of a lower order or a higher, which has severally been lodged in them; his eager contemplation of {5} the many things they do, effect, or produce, of all their great works, as nations or as states; nay, even as they are corrupted or disguised by evil, so far as that evil may in imagination be disjoined from their proper nature, or may be {10} regarded as a mere material disorder apart from its formal character of guilt.
— from Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman For the Use of Schools by John Henry Newman

This kind will avail but little in the higher enterprises of human intellect, especially in that highest enterprise of guiding men Heavenward, which, after all, is the one real "governing" of them on this God's-Earth:—an enterprise not to be achieved by beaver intellect, but by other higher and highest kinds.
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

She knew nothing but that her brother lay in that horrible empty house, and that, if his words were not the ravings of a maniac, the law, whether it yet suspected him or not, was certainly after him, and if it had not yet struck upon his trail, was every moment on the point of finding it, and must sooner or later come up with him.
— from Thomas Wingfold, Curate by George MacDonald

The present President, Rev. Edward P. Allen, has still further diminished the debt by more than half and the attendance has been largely increased through his efficient administration.
— from The History of University Education in Maryland The Johns Hopkins University (1876-1891). With supplementary notes on university extension and the university of the future by Bernard C. (Bernard Christian) Steiner

In a neighboring State and its adjacent islands scarcely two hundred miles distant from this, could to-day be found several thousand human beings, living in their homes, enjoying their family lives, following their ordinary avocations, cultivating the ground, who, if asked, would unhesitatingly tell you that but for the help of the Red Cross, they would two years ago have been under the ground they now cultivate.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

The hard fresh butter looked inviting to her eyes, and she stooped over and smelled it half involuntarily.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, Volume 48, March, 1854 by Various

But my companion seemed to be merely interested; and I fancied her deciding that it all quite came up to her expectations, while I translated for her from the monk that the dead used to be left in the hallowed earth from Jerusalem covering the ground before they were taken up and decoratively employed, but that since the Italian occupation of Rome the art had fallen into abeyance.
— from Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells

A word, however, must be said in tribute to Santa Clara College, without which the California youth of from twenty to forty years ago would have been lacking in that higher education which stands for so much in the making of a state.
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini

Nearly everything in the way of war material had been lost in the hurried evacuation of New York.
— from The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 by Samuel Adams Drake