It insists on a moral regeneration of society of the most complete and searching kind in order to make a lasting foundation for the political and social changes we many of us long to see."
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

It is not because I believe that they represent anything new that no one has observed before; but I know how thoughtlessly most of us let the sun shine, and the birds fly, without any idea of what a refreshment it is for a man's soul to understand what he sees in Nature, and how interesting animal life becomes when we have once learned that there is a method and a thought in every single thing that the animal undertakes, and what a pleasure it is to discover this thought, and trace the beautiful reasoning power which is Nature's essence.
— from Norse Tales and Sketches by Alexander Lange Kielland

A marine mail orderly usually leaves the service at the expiration of a cruise with a snug sum tucked away.
— from The Sea Rovers by Rufus Rockwell Wilson

He joins the purity and passion of Angelico to the strength of Veronese: the two elements, poised in perfect balance, are so calmed and restrained, each by the other, that most of us lose the sense of both.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin

The sweet lines of the hymn, about the shepherd seeking his lost sheep, that most of us love to sing, bring out the tenderness of Jesus here very touchingly.
— from The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3 by Richard Newton

The great mass of us like to see the absolute reign of reason tempered by the incomprehensible, and are ever ready to lend a kindly ear to men and things that humor that liking.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various

No more mysteries of unknown lands to solve.
— from The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood

“Yes,” she answered, with a face full of the beautiful confidence in virtue, the instinctive desire for the best which so many of us lose too soon, to find again after life's great lessons are well learned.
— from Rose in Bloom A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" by Louisa May Alcott

With regard to the manner of using “ life tests ,” since in most cases extremely small quantities of the active principle will have to be identified, the choice is limited to small animals, and it is better to use mice or birds, rather than reptiles.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

As the two separated they muttered, "Outwit us? Like to see it done!"
— from Lost in the Wilds: A Canadian Story by Eleanor Stredder