The principal articles of export are wheat, barley, esparto grass (used in making paper), olive oil, dates, wool and skins.
— from Alden's Handy Atlas of the World Including One Hundred and Thirty-eight Colored Maps, Diagrams, Tables, Etc. by John B. (John Berry) Alden

LINES 1860 I 'm ashamed,—that 's the fact,—it 's a pitiful case,— Won't any kind classmate get up in my place?
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I'm afraid they wouldn't grow up, if Mrs. Purr lived with them," began Wee, but got no further; for just then the cat bounced into the drawer, and [Pg 97] ate up the mouselings in four mouthfuls.
— from Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 6 An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. by Louisa May Alcott

Children of criminal parents, removed from the environment of crime, grow up into moral persons.
— from How to Teach by Naomi Norsworthy

You let this girl go up in my plane and she’ll do all of the tricks your cameras can catch and a few more thrown in.
— from Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines by Ruthe S. Wheeler

For instance, an American and German or an Irish and German uniting in marriage, produces better looking children than those marrying in the same nationality.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

Gradually, however, as the intellect, by contact with its subject-matter, grows in discipline, physical science will give up its mosaic play with stones and will seek out the boundaries and forms of the bed in which the living stream of phenomena flows.
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

Wherever geology has said that gold must be, there, perversely enough, it lies not; and wherever her ladyship has declared that it could not be, there has it oftenest garnered up in miraculous profusion the yellow splendor of its virgin beauty.
— from The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Dame Shirley

I was sorely blamed to let such a man as Mr. Heckletext go up into my pulpit, although I was as ignorant of his offences as the innocent child that perished; and, in an unguarded hour, to pacify some of the elders, who were just distracted about the disgrace, I consented to have him called before the session.
— from The Annals of the Parish Or, the Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by John Galt

Even the old conscientiousness often gave way to greed, until in many places inferior workmanship received the approval of the gild.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes