She had gone to bed, and I was ushered to her bedroom, and when I saw her thin length of age scarce rounding the coverlids, and her face frilled with white lace, and her lean neck stretching up from her pillows with the piteous outreaching of a bird, a great tenderness of compassion for womanhood, both in youth and beauty and age and need, beyond which I can express, came over me.
— from The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

It would be difficult to imagine charitable efforts carried on more indefatigably or nobly.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Thus then on a fine sunny morning I started out with no more equipment than I could easily carry on my back.
— from The New Gulliver, and Other Stories by Barry Pain

The last week of our stay in Hawaii we were both released from Smith's bail, our sugar stocks had gradually risen to two points higher than the figure at which [Pg 37] we purchased them and I collected every cent of my loans.
— from From Job to Job around the World by Alfred C. B. (Alfred Charles Benson) Fletcher

I collected every cent of my money and incidentally established myself on a firm footing with every family in the house.
— from One Way Out: A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by William Carleton

I cannot even call out, make them hear— Just as in dreams: I have tried and proved the fact.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning