I'm afeared it's mighty dusty here today—but there's no need of looking at dust when you can look at such scenery, is there?" "I don't mind the dust," said Anne, "but Gilbert says I must keep in the open air.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

632 So bitter-sweet and uncontrollable is the itch of curiosity, like a sore, shedding its blood when lanced.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

"She knew no fear, and as bears and panthers were numerous in the woods, and rattlesnakes and copperheads abounded everywhere, her friends told her of the danger to which she exposed herself, but it produced no other effect than to draw forth a contemptuous laugh, as she said, 'I know you only want to frighten me and keep me at home, but you miss it, for I often see your bears and I am perfectly convinced that they are nothing more than black hogs.'
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It has been said that Lincoln once worked for Kirkpatrick as a common laborer, and suffered some indignities at his hands; but the story as a whole is supported by no credible testimony.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

In a Bundi series depicting the twelve months, courtly lovers are shown sitting in a balcony watching a series of rustic incidents proceeding below.
— from The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by W. G. (William George) Archer

It came like a sudden smile in a scene of hate and terror.
— from The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The compound leaves are seldom six inches long, often not three, and they are made up of from three to nine leaflets.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

He says: “As I found this Citty little and sweet, so I found her cheife and best structures correspondent to her smallnesse, which was neat and hansome, and neither great nor sumptuous.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by G. H. (George Henry) Palmer