Very respectfully, William A. Smith, Wilmington, Del. Dear Mrs. Eddy :—We have been studying “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” for a year, and I cannot tell you how much it has done for us; giving us health instead of sickness, and giving us such an understanding of God as we never had before.
— from Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy

Up and down the land, to beggar or lord, homeless wanderer or high-born dame, he gladly gave unselfish service all unsought, and such as he helped straightway became his friends.
— from The Gate of the Giant Scissors by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Theile, warum eine solche Lage und Verbindung der Theile und gerade diese innere Form ihnen gegeben worden, jene Maxime: dass nichts in einem solchen Geschöpf UMSONST sey, als unumgänglich nothwendig annehmen und sie eben so, als den Grundsatz der allgemeinen Naturlehre: dass Nichts von ungefähr geschehe, geltend machen, ist bekannt.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

Uncle Dick nodded, for he felt that it would be better for someone else to speak; but the man got up, scowled at Uncle Bob, and when he held out a couple of half-crowns to him to buy beer to drink our healths the fellow made a derisive gesture, walked to his stone, and sat down.
— from Patience Wins: War in the Works by George Manville Fenn

I did wake up, but though the book was under my pillow I let the half-hour before getting up slip away unused.
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

The images of the weeds which hung down from its sides appear as plants growing up, straight and upright, among the water-weeds that really grow from the bottom of the well, and so vivid was the image, that for some moments, and not till after I had disturbed the water, did I perceive that their roots were not neighbours, and they side-by-side companions.
— from Anima Poetæ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Then, all at once there comes down upon the baking ground and on the faded, drooping flowers that lie languid and prostrate on the ground in the darkness, borne on the wings of the wind, from the depths of the great unfathomed sea, an unseen moisture.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

Magnus, as he grew up, showed an ugly and revengeful temper.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian by Charles Morris