Pomoxis annularis Rafinesque, white crappie: Canfield and Wiebe (1931:5-8, 10) as "white crappie."
— from Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas by W. L. Minckley

God’s protection was with the man who had a vision of the life of peace and righteousness which could come to the West only through the gospel that it was his privilege to preach.
— from Brother Van by Stella Wyatt Brummitt

When Paul was converted, Christ came to him; when the negro chamberlain of the Queen of Ethiopia was converted, Christ came to him; when the people of Ephesus and Corinth, Philippi and Rome, were converted, Christ came to them.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

I pushed my insurance policy a little deeper into my pocket and replied, with conviction: "Certainly not; but you must not forget that no man is guilty until he has been proven so."
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Various

You next desire several persons, (as many persons as there are pairs on the table,) each to look at different pairs and remember what cards compose them.
— from Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. by Unknown

The magnificent lake is a dirty puddle; the lovely plain, a rude wild country cover'd with the most astonishing high black mountains: the inhabitants, the most amiable race under the sun, appear now to be the ugliest, and look as if they were over-run with the itch.
— from Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by James Boswell