But it had four legs an’ a mouth an’ hair an’ looked like any dog.”
— from White Fang by Jack London

But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn, When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light, When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise, And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy, O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well, And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening came my friend, And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores, I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me, For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night, In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me, And his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I was happy.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The secret of providing occupation for this class is to buy as little material and hire as little labor as possible; let the women make the clothes, and the men do the farm-work without the aid of machinery.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

Marie, and Hilda, and Leslie laughed, while he, after looking at Lettie as she crouched, wistfully, as he thought, over the flower, led the little brute out of the garden, and sent it running into the yard with a smack on the haunch.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

And it will do this even after you are married and have a little live egg in you, if you have not taken care of both womb and ovaries.
— from Confidential Chats with Girls by William Lee Howard

Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, a Lincolnshire lady of good birth, education, and great energy of character, had been leavened by the tolerant principles of Williams before he left, and assumed the right to discuss religious dogmas and to detect the errors of the clergy.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

You are not an old man, and have a long life before you.”
— from The Precipice by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

It was very good of her to attempt to make us feel more at home and less like intruders by giving us a chance to pay for what we shall obtain.”
— from Frank Merriwell's Endurance; or, A Square Shooter by Burt L. Standish

Around each shelter, with its solitary marksman and his attendant loader, lay a deep crescent of game, every bird shot cleanly.
— from The Revellers by Louis Tracy

He had a very sweet voice, and she liked to hear that; and, when he had done, she contented herself with simply shaking her head in token of refusal: then, as he again stooped his proud spirit to still more vehement entreaties and supplications, and raved in the intensity of his anguish, she mocked at him, and laughed loud and long in scorn, till at length, wearied out and despairing, he sunk his head upon his bosom, and was silent.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

74%, other Muslim (includes Alawite, Druze) 16%, Christian (various denominations) 10%, Jewish (tiny communities in Damascus, Al Qamishli, and Aleppo) Languages: Arabic (official); Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian widely understood; French, English somewhat understood Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 79.6% male: 86% female: 73.6% (2004 census) Education expenditures: 3.9% of GDP (1999) country comparison to the world: 109 Government ::Syria Country name: conventional long form: Syrian Arab Republic conventional short form: Syria local long form: Al Jumhuriyah al Arabiyah as Suriyah local short form: Suriyah former: United Arab Republic (with Egypt) Government type: republic under an authoritarian military-dominated regime Capital: name: Damascus geographic coordinates: 33 30 N, 36 18 E time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins 1 April; ends 30 September Administrative divisions: 14 provinces (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Al Hasakah, Al Ladhiqiyah (Latakia), Al Qunaytirah, Ar Raqqah, As Suwayda', Dar'a, Dayr az Zawr, Dimashq, Halab, Hamah, Hims, Idlib, Rif Dimashq (Damascus), Tartus Independence: 17 April 1946 (from League of Nations mandate under French administration)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Neither are inventions apt to be stolen by patent attorneys for the reasons cited above but after you have worked out your invention, built a model and obtained a patent you are then in great danger of being separated from the fruits of your genius and perseverance by the professional promoter who makes it his business to finance the invention and at the same [101] time to feather his own nest; but more about him a little later.
— from Inventing for Boys by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins