Are we to find our end in being nothing, absolutely nothing, devoid of will, of purpose, of personality?
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson
“In many cases irrigation on Indian reservations has been provided for in response to a perfectly natural and normal demand of white settlers, either for the opening to settlement of irrigable lands on Indian reservations or for obtaining water from streams flowing through Indian reservations for the irrigation of their lands on the outside.
— from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 ... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead
New plays were then in constant demand, just as the new novel and new daily or weekly paper are called for now.
— from Nineteenth Century Questions by James Freeman Clarke
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