SPEECH The two persons who have written authoritatively about Miss Keller's speech and the way she learned it are Miss Sarah Fuller, of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston, Massachusetts, who gave her the first lessons, and Miss Sullivan, who, by her unremitting discipline, carried on the success of these first lessons.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The peeled white body of the beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

In the delineation of the philosopher, the illustrations of the nature of philosophy derived from love are more suited to the apprehension of Glaucon, the Athenian man of pleasure, than to modern tastes or feelings.
— from The Republic by Plato

Mute with grief, she trusted in him; In his boat they crossed the water, While the night fell like a mantle Spread in mercy to help save them.
— from The White Doe The Fate of Virginia Dare by Sallie Southall Cotten

From a very unpretentious concern, publishing a few library aids, manufacturing such library devices as could not be obtained elsewhere, and keeping for sale a few articles of library furnishing, the Library Bureau has grown to be a corporation of no small proportions, having numerous branches both in this country and Europe, maintaining a card factory, cabinet works in Boston and Chicago, and facilities for the manufacture of steel stacks unexcelled in this country.
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana

"O Captain!" said the fat lady at my side, "you don't really think they would blow up a ship?"
— from The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates by Arthur Conan Doyle

The good farmer and his wife gave me a bountiful meal, but the former looked at me suspiciously, and remarked that he had heard the school-whistle the night before.
— from My Life by Josiah Flynt

On her chestnut hair she wore a small diamond crown with a point in front like a Marie Stuart cap, and a long cream veil of Honiton lace.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

She simply wanted to have first look at me so as to be able to give the village to-morrow a full, true, and particular account of what I’m like.”
— from The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler

They seemed as much puzzled at the position in which they found Lucilla and myself, she wiping her eyes, and I standing by in admiration, as I had been at her mysterious interview with Mrs. Carlton.
— from Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

The stern Calvinism of the North was wont to consign to utter neglect the outcast border of civilisation, where there were no decent parents to pledge themselves; and Partan Jeannie’s son had grown up well-nigh in heathen ignorance among fisher lads and merchant sailors, till it had been left for him to learn among the Mohammedans both temperance and devotional habits.
— from A Modern Telemachus by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge