In a new country one naturally leads a new life, and it need not necessarily be a failure.
— from The Second String by Nat Gould

She taught her that a girl must dress beautifully to be beautiful, that she must learn all the world's ways and secrets, and at the same time appear in speech and manner like a child of Nature, like a newly opened rose.
— from The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris

In the Bible world three centers of national life arose, not far apart in time, each of which became a powerful kingdom, and in turn ruled all the Oriental lands.
— from Studies in Old Testament History by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Importunate prayers anticipated, postponed, denied, translated, transmuted, and then answered till our cup was too full; sweet changed to bitter, and bitter changed to sweet, so wonderfully, so graciously, and so often, that words fail us, and we can only now laugh and now weep over it all.
— from Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte

I remember when we didn't have stoves to cook on, no lamps, and not even any candles until I was about six years old.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

It is supported in every detail by the skilled criticism of no less a naval authority than Captain Mahan.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 1 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

If the conquest of Norman lands and Norman towns was renounced therefore, it was not merely for the sake of capturing the holy Ampulla.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France