The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is dropping; The poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

for Iron Bright red in dark 750 to 760 Red hot in twilight 880 to 890 Dark red hardly visible in daylight 970 Red visible by daylight 1070 Brighter red by daylight 1300 Cherry red by daylight 1450 Bright cherry red by daylight 1650 Light cherry red by daylight 1800 Orange 2000 Yellow 2150 White heat 2350 White welding heat 2600 White welding and dazzling 2800 95 Questions for Review What is meant by the carbon contents of steel?
— from Forge Work by William L. (William Lewis) Ilgen

I have no belief whatever in the usual theories that the fall in birth rates is due to preventive measures, which religion disallows, or to debauchery, which religion controls.
— from The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding

Typhus and typhoid fevers and cholera could not, I believe, exist in the city except temporarily, and by pure accident; small-pox would be kept under entire control; puerperal fever and hospital fever would, probably, cease altogether; rheumatic fever, induced by residence in damp houses, and the heart disease subsequent upon it, would be removed.
— from Hygeia, a City of Health by Benjamin Ward Richardson

" The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is dropping;
— from The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

"Well, I'll give you 'most anything, if you'll only ask for it; but remember, I do it myself.
— from Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge

Such of a very noble kind was the great Irish address brought over from Ireland by Remond in December 1841.
— from William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké