An effective national energy plan is essential to increase domestic production of oil and gas, to encourage conservation of our scarce energy resources, to stimulate conversion to more abundant fuels, and to reduce our trade deficit.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter

Whether the emblems of Druid, or Christian worship, these "images cut out of stone" evidently represent an age, in which the heart was subdued by superstitious fear rather than by " love ."
— from The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, Adapted to the Wants of Young Americans Taking Their First Glimpses at the Old World by George H. Heffner

Boswell, James: Life of Samuel Johnson Bradford, Gamaliel: Lee the American; American Portraits, 1875-1900 Franklin, Benjamin: Autobiography Grant, U. S.: Personal Memoirs Irving, Washington: Life of Goldsmith Paine, A. B.: Life of Mark Twain Walton, Izaak: Lives Addison, Joseph: Spectator Papers Bryce, Sir James: The American Commonwealth Burke, Edmund: Speech on Conciliation Burroughs, John: Wake Robin Chesterton, G. K.: Heretics Crothers, S. M.: The Gentle Reader Dana, R. H., Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast Darwin, Charles: Origin of Species Emerson, R. W.: Essays Irving, Washington: Sketch Book Lincoln, Abraham: Speeches and Addresses Lucas, E. V.: Old Lamps for New Macaulay, T. B.: Essays Muir, John: The Mountains of California Thoreau, H. D.: Walden Twain, Mark: Life on the Mississippi Allen, James Lane: The Choir Invisible Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Barrie, Sir James M.: Sentimental Tommie Bennett, Arnold: The Old Wives' Tale Blackmore, R. D.: Lorna Doone Bunyan, John: Pilgrim's Progress Cable, G. W.: Old Creole Days Conrad, Joseph: The Nigger of the Narcissus Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield Eliot, George: Adam Bede Galsworthy, John: The Patrician Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield Hardy, Thomas: The Return of the Native Harte, Bret: The Luck of Roaring Camp (short story) Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter Hergesheimer, Joseph: Java Head Hudson, W. H.: Green Mansions Kingsley, Charles: Westward Ho !
— from The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor

The earl at once set his men to work to throw up a breastwork to cover them from the guns of the inner works; and as there was plenty of materials collected just at this spot for the carrying out of some extensive repairs, they were able to put themselves under cover before the enemy opened fire upon them.
— from The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty