If, as before said, the cleavage be deep and [Pg 150] lasting; and if, instead of attempting to bind up the wounded mind, those practices which caused the original "split" be persisted in; if shock follow shock—to the mental, moral, emotional, or physical nature; if great exhaustion, lack of sleep, or of proper food, or other causes of a like nature, be present—then it is evident that the cleavage must become deeper and deeper yet; and, in a short time, the few stray, wandering thoughts become grouped and bound together, and begin to form a veritable psychological entity.
— from The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington

“Shame on you, Mopsey, for not speaking right up, and saying that you’ll do as much as the others will,” cried Nelly, in great excitement, lest one of the party should frustrate the others in their good work.
— from Left Behind; Or, Ten Days a Newsboy by James Otis

Why is a man for whom nothing is good enough like a hyena galloping?
— from How to Solve Conundrums Containing All the Leading Conundrums of the Day, Amusing Riddles, Curious Catches, and Witty Sayings by Anonymous

{361} As examples of plates representative of the hobby of their owners, we have the following: Dean Sage ; an angling plate, very simple in design and very fine in execution, with a large trout, and the rod and the landing net crossed behind it: an enthusiastic fisherman, and the author of a sumptuous volume on salmon-fishing in some of the Canadian rivers, Mr. Sage uses this plate only in the books of his library which relate to the gentle pursuit favored of Walton;— Howland ; An angling plate of very handsome design: the shield of arms is surrounded {362} with the implements of the fisherman, with evidences of his success and with the weeds which grow by the water side: the motto Piscator non solum piscator floats on a ribbon above;— Lucius Poole ; the masks of Comedy and of Tragedy are brought together in this plate, as indicative of the books collected by Mr. Poole;— Arthur Robinson Stone : a folio volume of music is open to the Largo of the second part of the “Messiah,” by Handel, and is copied from the original score preserved in the British Museum:—in the plate of Martin Hayden two Cupids bear a shield on which the name is given: each little Cupid also manages to hold a mask: the motto, Upward, Onward .
— from American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples by Charles Dexter Allen

I could not read again and live The note I got 'ere long, From Polly's single relative Anent my goings on.
— from Southerly Busters by George Herbert Gibson

Gentle nurses of the Universities' English Mission, missionary ladies who devoted a lifetime in the service of the Huns and the natives in German East, locked up behind barbed wire for two years, without privacy of any kind, constantly spied upon in their huts at night by the native guard, always in terror that the black man, now unrestrained, even encouraged by his German master, should do his worst.
— from Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey