May I not go even so far as to say that the gentlest and most peace-loving of religions endorses this aspiration?
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

In natural growth each successive stage of activity prepares unconsciously, but thoroughly, the conditions for the manifestation of the next stage—as in the cycle of a plant's growth.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

“Well, I never got ’em, Sis.” Aunt Polly she turns around slow and severe, and says: “You, Tom!”
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

istúb n gas, electric stove.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There is no general educational system in Korea, and the percentage of illiteracy is naturally large.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

[Pg 020] goodly, if not grand, Elizabethan structure, full of mullioned windows, carved oak panels, stone-cut coats of arms, pinnacles, and traceries, and lozenges, and drops; and all this glory crowned by a many-gabled, high-peaked roof.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

‘It is no great exploit,’ she said. ‘Is that what you call glory?
— from Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Your best is not good enough," she urged, laughing heartily likewise.
— from The Doctor's Christmas Eve by James Lane Allen

But the useful is not goodness, except so far as it is pleasing and virtuous.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

"No, he is not good enough," said Lilias, "he is afraid of his mother.
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

This was too much, and she replied indignantly “I never give ’em, sir.”
— from Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso by Charles Barnard