Why is it better to prune a little every year than a great deal once in five years?
— from Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904 by New York State College of Agriculture

You would have bet a couple of thousand, anyway, as a matter of principle, and, like enough, you'd have lost it.
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough

Gently the arms enfold you, sweetly peace and love embrace you, and you are at rest; sleep if you like.
— from The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

They trust that the book you have just read has, in part at least, earned your esteem for other titles in their list.
— from Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron

Then he dwelled bitterly over his fate, for having to go and fetch his pony, and let every yokel look into his basket and grin at its beautiful emptiness.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The boys tremblingly obeyed, and when they were grouped before the door the ruffian added, "Now go through your pockets and lay everything you have on this log.
— from Canoe Boys and Campfires; Or, Adventures on Winding Waters by William Murray Graydon

[38] Those who had never visited the place were delighted with its appearance, its balconied houses, its abundance of flowers and vines creeping over walls and up the sides of houses, its great department stores, which send the heads of departments to Paris and London every year to get the latest in fashions; its motley population of English, Spanish, French and the thousands of Hindu coolies that are brought over here under contract to work on the plantations.
— from With the Battle Fleet Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908 by Franklin Matthews

Lady Hartleton shook her head, as she said,— “Ada, you would but, in such a place as London, expose yourself to much danger and insult.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer