Billy Goodnight is gone; ondoubted his murderer should win the doom meted out for sech atrocities; but dooty or no dooty, this committee ain't called on to be talked to death in its discharge.
— from Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis

The host was a man of business, famed for his success and his interest in public affairs, and especially generous in giving of his money and time to further movements that attempt the betterment of rural life.
— from Rural Problems of Today by Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves

Outside his sermons and his school, his Natural History Club had perhaps most of his heart, and the passion for science, little continuous work as he was able to give it, grew on him more and more.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.