As there appears a strong coincidence between this opinion and one expressed in the preface to the “Rules for the Government of Gaols,” I beg leave to add an extract from that excellent publication, which appeared in 1820, but had not been seen by me until long after the above was written.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

[43] Occasionally a brutal sea-captain might use lash and triangle and branding along the northern coast; but officers defenceless among savage hordes must of necessity have lived on terms of justice with their men.
— from The Story of the Trapper by Agnes C. Laut

I am afraid that dear baby's arrival has made us less able to amuse you than we were.
— from Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie

How many young wives, especially linked to the husbands of their choice, and by this very means disenchanted, as they themselves would call it, were doomed to look no more upon life as the antechamber of the infinite, but as the counting-house of the king of the nursery-ballad, where you may, if you can, eat bread and honey, but where you must count your money!
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

Sobrino on the head he smote and flung; But straight from earth that fierce old man upsprung; LXXXIX And turned anew to Olivier, to speed The warrior's soul more promptly on its way; Or at the least that baron to impede.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

As I weighed under eight stone, he lifted me up like a toy and deposited me on my bed.
— from Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith

The demand that we should make upon life, and the aim which we should have clearly before us in all that we do, is that it may contribute to the formation of a pure and noble self, to the development of character into that likeness to Jesus Christ, which is perfection and peace and blessedness.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

The farmer now raises a few prime products to sell, and then he buys his foods in the markets under label and tag; and he knows not who produced the materials, and he soon comes not to care.
— from The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

—"It is a habit which utterly destroys the moral fiber of its slaves, and makes unmitigated liars and thieves and forgers of them, and even murder might be added to the list of crimes, were no other road left open to the gratification of its insatiate and insane appetite.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

A gentleman one night came freezing into our drawing-room, and as he stood complacently before the fire, made us laugh at the account of a visit he had just been paying to the Count M——, the admiral of the port—a sinecure office, it is needless to remark.
— from The Englishwoman in Italy Impressions of life in the Roman states and Sardinia, during a ten years' residence by Gretton, G., Mrs.