Mr. Bowen was followed by Luther Eames, Edward Corning, Henry E. Morrill, George [Pg 140] E. Bell, Rossiter W. Raymond, and George W. Bard well, who is now in charge.
— from Sixty years with Plymouth Church by Stephen Morrell Griswold

"Even the birds are busy at their nests," thought Leo; "Everything, every creature, has its work to do.
— from The Adventures of Prince Lazybones, and Other Stories by Helen Ashe Hays

'Only a little bit o' clay, just made up vor to look like Minna.' 'Look 'ee 'ere,' Colin,' his father went on, glancing quickly from the clay to little Minna, and altering a touch or two with his big clumsy fingers, not undeftly.
— from Babylon, Volume 1 by Grant Allen

Locke, ever elsewhere clear, Here mystified Spinoza’s dizzy wing {27} O’erweighted by his strange “imperium;” Hobbes, with his new intrinsic liberty; And Belsham’s quaint reduction too absurd; “Sufficient reason,” reared in Leibnitz’s strength; Reid, Collins, Edwards, Tappan, Priestley, Clarke, All push each other from the door of Truth.
— from The Angel in the Cloud by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

Jehu, Omri, Menahem, Hezekiah, Hazael, Merodach Baladan, Pharoah, Sargon, Sennacherib, Essarhaddon, Dagon, Nebo, Judæa, Jerusalem, Samaria, Ashdod, Lachish, Damascus, Hamath, Hittites (the), Tyre, Sidon, Gaza, Ekron, Askelon, Arvad, Gubal (the people of), Lebanon, Egypt, Euphrates, Carchemish, Hebar or Chebar (river), Harran, Ur, Gozan (the people of), Mesopotamia, Children of Eden, Tigris, Nineveh, Babylon, Elam, Shushan, Media, Persia, Yavan, Ararat, Hagarenes, Nabathæans, Aramæans, Chaldæans, Meshek, Tubal, Assyria, Assyrians, Pethor, Telassar.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard