Others seek to promote their own interests, but Susan, earnest, honest, self-sacrificing, much-enduring, thinks only of the work she has in hand, and speculates solely on the chances of living long enough to accomplish it.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

I saw in gardens attached to one or two houses a few courageous radishes and some fool-hardy potatoes, which had ventured above ground without the least chance of living long enough to blossom.
— from Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor

From these considerations it would seem that changes in the conditions of life lead either to sterility or to variability, or to both; and not that sterility induces variability.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

They who only draw the child's dress the tighter, the more it cries, are guilty of a crime of little less enormity than murder.
— from The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

There is no end to his largesse , and so successful is this method that in twenty-five days he holds the south and marches on Toledo, where he is received with cries of “Long live Enrique the merciful, who comes to save us from our enemy, Don Pedro.”
— from Old Court Life in Spain, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

THE LINE OF THE MINUTE MEN LEXINGTON, MASS. MENTOR GRAVURES SIGNING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE By John Trumbull THE LIBERTY BELL CHILDREN OF LIBERTY LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD The Statue of Liberty is 151 feet high, standing on a granite pedestal 155 feet high.
— from The Mentor: The Cradle of Liberty, Vol. 6, Num. 10, Serial No. 158, July 1, 1918 by Albert Bushnell Hart

During these years be careful of law, legal entanglements, treachery from trusted friends and long journeys without purpose.
— from Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration, Book one by C. J. (Casper James) Coffman