La pobre Rosario, que iba saliendo adelante, gracias a nuestros cuidados, está ya perdida de la cabeza.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

It is a war claim which implies no private gain, and no compensation except for one of the cases of destruction incident to war, which may well be repaired by the people of the whole country.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Reuben Warner, Benjamin Gaylord, Ebenezer Gaylord, Asahel Noble, Capt. Elizur Warner, Israel Camp, Lemuel Warner, Capt. Joseph Ruggles, Dea.
— from Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences by Various

Science can give no account of how these germs and nucleated cells, endowed with these marvellous capacities for evolution, came into existence, or got their intrinsic powers.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs by Robert F. (Robert Forman) Horton

You get a new combination every time you pull a string.
— from Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 by Gilbert Parker

The town was almost entirely without a garrison, and nothing could exceed the astonishment of its inhabitants.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

Habitation notes a special presence, though he dwell in the highest heavens in the sparklings of his glory, he dwells also in the lowest hearts in the beams of his grace; as none can expel him from his dwelling in heaven, so none can reject him from his residence in the heart.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

“You have only to lose by it, that is obvious, and I to gain, and nothing could equal the indecency of insistence on my part; but I feel that I am going to persist to the point of persecution.
— from Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Its gates open towards light and glory both within and without, for all is good, and nothing can enter that city, which "defileth. . . .
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

My childhood is given back to me—but a childhood of such peace, such innocent gaiety as no child ever yet experienced.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

The gate of Sin and his garden are named. Canals, especially the Nâr tupsarrûti , the Nâr Bilîa , are named.
— from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns