The good are befriended even by weakness and defect.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I were quiet at the moment, I was conniving at their disorderly conduct; if (as was frequently the case) I happened to be exalting my voice to enforce order, I was using undue violence, and setting the girls a bad example by such ungentleness of tone and language.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

The result has been that during the last century they were "jumped" right and left by people of the name of Cooper, entirely in ignorance of the fact that the arms of Cooper (if it were, as one can only presume, the popular desire to indicate a false relationship to his lordship) are: "Gules, a bend engrailed between six lions rampant or."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

She just nodded her head, not getting a bit excited, but rockin' back and forth.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

As for life therefore, and death, honour and dishonour, labour and pleasure, riches and poverty, all these things happen unto men indeed, both good and bad, equally; but as things which of themselves are neither good nor bad; because of themselves, neither shameful nor praiseworthy.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

“Where do they grow?” asked Bob eagerly, beginning to extract the juice from a large orange.
— from The Motor Boys in Strange Waters; or, Lost in a Floating Forest by Clarence Young

Only a few years before that, Ts'u had given a princess of her own in marriage to the heir-apparent of one of the petty orthodox states (imperial clan), and the reigning father had had improper relations with her, which in the end led to his murder by his son; thus Ts'u, however delinquent, had already been given a bad example by the imperial clan.
— from Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker

Select three different blossoms or groups of flowers and, taking the largest first, lay it down flat on a strip of stiff paper with the stems or lower part toward the edge of the paper; then run a pencil line entirely around the edge of the flower; this will give a blank enclosed by the outline of the flower.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

Gerhardt, Madison.) Wyoming: Sage grouse and sharp-tailed grouse are becoming extinct, both in Wyoming and North Dakota.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

According to a Sicilian proverb, the hen that crows like a cock must neither be sold nor given away, but eaten by its mistress.
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

Since I wrote this chapter, I have learned some things with regard to the freed men at Port Royal, where so many fugitive slaves have taken refuge during the war, and are now employed by Government, and being educated by Christian teachers, which will make what I have just said more apparent.
— from Step by Step; Or, Tidy's Way to Freedom by American Tract Society

They were blessed with good appetites, Bohunkus especially being noted at home for his capacity in that line.
— from The Flying Boys in the Sky by Edward Sylvester Ellis

That time the people grew a bit excited; but now they take a Zeppelin much as a matter of course, and only wonder mildly where it came from and whither it is going.
— from Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

When on the ground, after being exhausted by his many wounds, he lay as if dead, with his head resting on his folded arms.
— from Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich