And as we all live by the love of God in Christ, so we should all adhere to this love, and make it our constant support even in the time of adversity.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

These beds include subordinate layers of greenish impure clay, soft micaceous and calcareous sandstones, and reddish friable earthy matter with white specks like decomposed crystals of feldspar; they include, also, hard concretions, fragments of shells, lignite, and silicified wood.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

The gross value which our mind confided to the equation it returns to us, without loss or gain, in coins stamped with every sort of effigy.
— from More Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre

Through what deep valleys she has travelled to reach this height, with what loss or gain, I cannot say, but I shall always remember her as she was that night in St. Ansgar, in her pink-mosquito-bar dress, her eyes shining with excitement, her voice vibrant with girlish gladness.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

There may be any quantity of intermediate mind, in various conditions of bog; some, wholesome Scotch peat,—some, Pontine marsh,—some, sulphurous slime, like what people call water in English manufacturing towns; but the elements of Croyance and Mescroyance are always chemically separable out of the putrescent mess: by the faith that is in it, what life or good it can still keep, or do, is possible; by the miscreance in it, what mischief it can do, or annihilation it can suffer, is appointed for its work and fate.
— from A Wanderer in Venice by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

What events would have been necessary to raise our two linen drapers into the light of glory I cannot say.
— from The Surprises of Life by Georges Clemenceau

[236] and economy; and the loyalty of God in committing such trust to us, when He presumably knows exactly how unworthy we are of it, is the explanation of life's enigma.
— from A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

[Pg 128] CHAPTER V THE LURE OF GOLD In Clem's story one word had been spoken, the one word which, in all ages, has been as a raging fire in men's minds, which has sent scores to die on the scorching deserts of Africa and Australia, or on the borders of the Arctic Seas, which has bred fevered adventure, lawlessness, and murder wherever it has been spoken, the word: Gold!
— from The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler