To render then those “terrestrial angels” all that our fondest wishes could desire, or our most vivid imaginations picture, must be, under any circumstances, a pleasing and delightful employment; while for a father or a brother to behold her returning all the care bestowed upon her, by the thousand offices of love, to the performance to which she alone is equal, is doubtless one of the most exalted sources of human felicity.
— from The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet by Anonymous

The consumptive may have spent wakeful nights, due to coughs and pains and distressing expectoration; the enforced cessation of work may have caused pecuniary worries; all his customary pleasures are now denied him, and he has strength for neither physical nor mental diversion.
— from Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Chicago (Ill.). Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Dispensary Department

Both poems were issued in parts, and with long intervals of unequal duration between the parts; but the same result was brought about by different causes and produced a dissimilar effect.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Tommie is doubtless correct in his assertion that the Pope controls American politics and dictates every act of congress.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann

From capture and pillage and divers evil things he saved her, and the Crescent City has not forgotten.
— from How the Flag Became Old Glory by Scott, Emma Look, Mrs.

font and S. door (with depressed arch), a Trans. chancel arch (pointed), a Dec. E. window, and Perp. tower, chapel (or transept), and nave windows.
— from Somerset by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Wade

"Not but what Jenny didn't tend to Arthur as though he'd come all proper at de end of de first year— like Jenny herself."
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

There was something, too, in the whole demeanour of Charles Tyrrell which had impressed him from the first with a belief of his perfect innocence; and, as the time before his trial was not likely to be long, the assizes being just about to commence when this unfortunate occurrence took place, he determined to make him as comfortable as possible and do everything in his power to make him forget his imprisonment.
— from Charles Tyrrell; or, The Bitter Blood. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James