"Fifteen thousand dollars in gold!" repeated Mr. Stanley as if in a dream.
— from The Young Treasure Hunter; Or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska by Frank V. Webster

"More'n some of us do, I guess," retorted Mrs. Conner, "and more'n folks ought to if they ain't prepared to do their duty by them when they've got 'em."
— from Stories That End Well by Octave Thanet

The moonlight is faded, the flowers still remain, But the dew drops have shrunk to their petals again." "My child," said the father, "look up to the skies; Behold that bright rainbow, those beautiful dyes, There, there are the dew drops in glory reset, 'Mid the jewels of heaven they are glittering yet.
— from The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People by Anonymous

Bessie D., in Lowell, Massachusetts, discovered a dandelion in bloom on December 9, and E. B. D., in Grand Rapids, Michigan, felt very happy when she found a pansy in her out-door garden December 10.
— from Harper's Young People, January 3 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The botanical gentlemen employed the day in going round Middle Island, but they found very little to reward their labour.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

Causal determination is opposed directly to the unconditionment of liberty; but obligation, as well as causal determination in general, remains, moreover, in every partial state, limited by its opposite, liberty, which ever recoils before the continual encroachments of obligation, but without ceasing to be.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various