And the Medical Officer of Health for St. George’s, Hanover Square:— “I am compelled to say that the number of dingy and dilapidated houses is a proof either that the owners of house property do not exercise sufficient control over their tenants, or that they themselves are grievously neglectful of their duties to their tenants and to society at large.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

She dozed—so tired her eyelids were— To the endless whirr, and whirr, and whirr; Though not even sleep could overcome The wheel’s revolving hum, hum, hum!
— from On the Tree Top by Clara Doty Bates

"I feel a good deal as you do, Sally, although I am not even so confident of the reason.
— from The Camp Fire Girls by the Blue Lagoon by Margaret Vandercook

The noble family of the district—(there is generally one noble family to every district, claiming descent from the ancient lords of the province, though generally its origin goes no farther back than some purchaser of the national estates, some commissary of the eighteenth century, or some Napoleonic army-contractor)—the Bonnivets, who lived some few miles away from the town, in a castle with tall towers with gleaming slates, surrounded by vast woods, in which were innumerable fish-ponds, themselves proposed for the hand of Mademoiselle Jeannin.
— from Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Romain Rolland

He thought the small States had made a considerable concession in the article of money bills, and that they might naturally expect some concessions on the other side.
— from The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 1 by United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)

has a deep root in human nature; earnest souls, conscious of their own weakness, will fly from the temptations of the world.
— from Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans by J. Murray (John Murray) Mitchell

So would nearly every social condition of the present age have appeared individually to a citizen of the world of 1800, if, possessing intelligence to foresee it, he lacked the imagination necessary to foresee the accompanying and subservient conditions.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell

The doubt seems to shipwreck everything, to destroy the one steady gleam of happiness "on the other side" that no earthly storm could obscure; to make all life gloomy with a horror of despair, a darkness that may verily be felt.
— from Autobiographical Sketches by Annie Besant