— Christopher Martin holds that the symptoms of the change of life are produced largely by a condition of instability and increased excitability of certain other cerebrospinal centers directly brought about by failure of the menstrual center, and adds: "It is probable that the ovaries, like the liver and thyroid gland, modify the blood circulating through them, and add to the blood some peculiar product of their metabolism.
— from The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene by Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith

The ninth corps and Pleasanton’s cavalry occupied Lovettsville, a pretty little village reminding one of New England.
— from Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) Edmonds

And if the immortal dead can truly speak, Show us, O Child of Light, where we are weak,— Grant us thy counsel (for thou art with God) And bear us wisdom where thy footsteps trod, And if thou seest aught of envious strife From virtue sapping all her sweeter life, Teach us, O Child of Light, a purer love, For thou hast learn'd of God—thou art above Thy weak and erring mortals here below Who see the light, yet forward fear to go— Guide us, if spirits of the dead may guide,
— from The Comet, and Other Verses by Irving Sidney Dix

Sir John Pirie, Lord Mayor 1841-2, received his baronetcy on the christening of the Prince of Wales: at his inauguration dinner Sir John said: “I little thought, forty years ago, when I came to the City of London, a poor lad from the banks of the Tweed, that I should ever arrive at so great a distinction.”
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs

When the British drew very near, in three principal columns, to attack simultaneously the left, the center, and the right, they became entangled among the rubbish and broken into disorder by clambering over logs and projecting limbs.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

[152] stands a heap better chance of leading a pleasant life than if he strives for to conspicious himself by swimming upstream all by himself.
— from J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb