In this one little 10 was said of the hardships endured, the dangers faced, or the homesickness conquered; it was a cheerful, hopeful letter, full of lively descriptions of camp life, marches, and military news; and only at the end did the writer's heart overflow with fatherly love and longing for the little girls at home.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

It was a cheerful, hopeful letter, full of lively descriptions of camp life, marches, and military news, and only at the end did the writer's heart over-flow with fatherly love and longing for the little girls at home.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The idea of a solid solution, strange at first, offers little difficulty on consideration.
— from The Principles of Leather Manufacture by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

One of the most fascinating of his many delightful yarns concerned his adventure with a giant pickerel: “Cousin Jim Smith and I,” the narrator began, “were fishin’ one lowery day on Clearwater Lake in a cranky little boat, when Jim hooked on to a pick’rel.
— from Days in the Open by Lathan A. (Lathan Augustus) Crandall

1): Bronze figure of Lionel Duke of Clarence (a son of Edward III.), from the tomb of the latter in Westminster Abbey (1377).
— from A Handbook of Pictorial History by Henry W. Donald