But in these same private places, which ring the metropolis round with innumerable small green refuges, or sanctuaries, several other species which are dying out in the parks and open spaces of inner London are also common—wren, hedge-sparrow, blue, cole, and great tits, chaffinch, and greenfinch—and of these no more need be said in this chapter.
— from Birds in London by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Occasionally he would rub his hands vehemently, as if to get rid of some sort of electricity; and once or twice we heard him ejaculate to himself, "The scoondrel!
— from White Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume II by William Black

Oh! lovely as the golden ray Of sunshine sleeping on the glade, When morning brightens into day, And in its radiance melts the shade; And lovelier than that gorgeous sun, May be the smile from woman won.
— from Poems by William Anderson

There aren't such great rooms, or such splendid old furniture in Milton, as we have."
— from The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill

There are traces of the Spaniards in Amiens, as there are wherever that most Roman of all the Latin peoples has ever passed, and the curious hortillonages of Amiens, which may be roughly described as a kind of floating kitchen gardens, remind one so strongly of the much more picturesque Chinampas of Mexico as to suggest the impression that the idea of establishing them may have come hither by way of Spain.
— from France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert

Yet, while not merely admitting, but insisting upon this, it is also true that where there is no governmental restraint or supervision some of the exceptional men use their energies not in ways that are for the common good, but in ways which tell against this common good.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

A great range of sporangial structure occurs within the orders concerned.
— from Keys to Fungi on Dung by M. J. (Michael J.) Richardson

"Yet, while not merely admitting, but insisting upon this, it is also true that where there is no governmental restraint or supervision some of the exceptional men use their energies, not in ways that are for the common good, but in ways which tell against this common good.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt