The pills, if piled up like cannon-balls, would make pyramids higher than those of Gizeh; the draughts would be sufficient to cover the earth with a nauseous deluge; and the powders, if blown about by an evil wind, levelling valleys and mountains, would change the whole of Europe into a medicated desert.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

I subsided on the bag, which was very like sitting on the floor; but it was stifling down there among people's feet; besides, mine soon got "pins and needles"; so presently I popped up like a Jack out of his Box, and almost knocked off a man's nose with the crown of my hat.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

For there are few bodies of people in this world who are more heroic and devoted than the Roman missionaries; they have died by fever, have been massacred, they live on a miserable pittance; I was told that one enlightened missionary, once a Professor in Paris University, lived on £12 a year; and their heroism and self-denial reaps a large reward.
— from Changing China by Cecil, Florence Mary (Bootle-Wilbraham), Lady

That motive power is pure, unselfish love—love to God and love to man.
— from Four American Leaders by Charles William Eliot

Watch 'im, with 'is 'air cut, Count us filin' by — Won't the Colonel praise 'is Pop — u — lar — i — ty!
— from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling