The author, sitting in his comfortable chair with something short within easy reach, recks nothing of the misery he is inflicting on hundreds of people who have done him no harm at all.
— from Tales of St. Austin's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Our reverent footsteps lastly claims The younger chapel of St. James, Which, though, as English records run, Not old, had seen full many a sun, Ere to the cold December gale
— from Poems of Henry Timrod; with Memoir by Henry Timrod

A frequently repeated whistle; sometimes high, sometimes low; generally begins slow and ends rapidly; resembles noise of saw-filing. (Ralph.)
— from Color Key to North American Birds with bibliographical appendix by Frank M. (Frank Michler) Chapman

end poetry block end rend rend=';' Now, of all our mortal actors here upon this earthly stage, The contractors have the hardest parts to play, I will engage; Specially in bran-new cities, just between the knead and bake, And where all the population are severely on the make.
— from Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land by Charles Godfrey Leland

He knew that cotton was one of the least exhaustive crops of the world, taking nearly all its sustenance from the air, and that it was also one of the most easily raised, requiring none of the complicated and expensive machinery necessary for wheat and other smaller grains.
— from The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

end poetry block end rend rend=';' No one befriends me wherever I go, But my own heart full of sorrow and wo!
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, July 1850 by Various