Before a week be gone This barren woodside and this leafless wold A million flowers shall invade With argent and azure, pearl and gold,— Like rainbow fragments scattered of the dawn,— Here making bright, here wan {305} Each foot of earth, each glen and glimmering glade, Each rood of windy wood, Where late gaunt Winter stood, Shaggy with snow and howling at the sky; Where even now the Springtime seems afraid To whisper of the beauty she designs, The flowery campaign that she now outlines Within her soul; her heart’s conspiracy To take the world with loveliness; defy
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 5 (of 5) Poems of meditation and of forest and field by Madison Julius Cawein

The disposition to go everywhere, regardless of wealth, and with Jesus on our lips, must be the spirit of the church, before we can expect much good either at home or abroad.
— from Thoughts on Missions by Sheldon Dibble

He would become a very good example, regardless of what he knew, to let everybody know that they better keep their mouths shut.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

In him flowed the blood of unnumbered chiefs, and, above all, he was in himself the very essence and spirit of a gentleman, one of the finest gentlemen either Robert or Willet had ever known.
— from The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Clarksburg Collingwood Grey, E. R. O Walter Hunter Claude Chinguacousy Peel O Peter T. McCollum Clavering Keppel Grey, N. R.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

Hopefield Radcliffe Renfrew, S. R. O Joseph Daly Hopewell, W. O. Albert N B Hopewell, W. O. Pictou N S John Gunn Hopewell Cape Albert N B M. B. Palmer Hopewell Corner, W. O. Albert N B William C. Pipes Hopewell Hill, W. O. Albert N B John R. Russell Hornby Esquesing Halton O John McMillan Horning’s Mills Melancthon Grey, E. R. O William Airth Hornsey, W. O. Cumberland N S George Reeve Horton Landing, W. O. King’s N S Frederic G. Curry Houghton Houghton Norfolk, S. R.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

"Pull up till we get used to the gloom," exclaimed Reeves, "or we shall be banging our heads against the solid rock.
— from Captured at Tripoli: A Tale of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Between the breaks in the shipping one could see the sea-gulls fishing and the harbour flashing, here spangled with coal tar, here whipped to deepest sapphire by the mistral; the junk shops, grog shops, parrot shops, 46 rope-walks, ships’ stores and factories lining the quays, each lending a perfume, a voice, or a scrap of colour to the air vibrating with light, vibrating with sound, shot through with voices; hammer blows from the copper sheathers in the dry docks, the rolling of drums from Port St. Nicholas, the roaring of grain elevators, rattling of winch-chains, trumpeting of ship sirens, mewing of gulls, the bells of Notre Dame and the bells of St. Victor, all fused, orchestrated, into one triumphant symphony beneath the clear blue sky and the trade flags of the world.
— from The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole