Of course I look forward to repaying you in the future, so far as money can repay such kindness; but that won't [Pg 97] help just now, and I wish I could find some work to do right away, so that I could earn enough to pay part of the living expenses of Mother and Annie and myself."
— from With Sully into the Sioux Land by Joseph Mills Hanson

Hushed is the dragon’s cry, the lion’s roar; Beneath her glooms a glad oblivion frees The heart from care, its weary labors o’er, Carrying divine repose and sweetness to its core.
— from Two Dramatizations from Vergil: I. Dido—the Phœnecian Queen; II. The Fall of Troy by Virgil

Scheele, with his usual perseverance, tried the effect of all the different reagents, and showed that it consisted chiefly of carbon , but was mixed with a certain quantity of iron.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

The girls’ dormitory was at one end, the boys’ at the other, but we shared the same dining room and sat together in classes; occasionally a boy could call on a girl in the reception hall if a teacher were present.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger