with a glory round his furrowed brow, Which emanated then, and dazzles now In face of all his foes, the Cruscan quire, And Boileau, whose rash envy could allow No strain which shamed his country's creaking lyre, That whetstone of the teeth—monotony in wire!
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Some of them earn pin-money while in college by tutoring, typewriting, sewing, summer work in libraries and offices, and in various little ways such as putting up lunches, taking care of rooms, executing commissions, and newspaper work.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Theodore Roosevelt EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, ALBANY, N. Y. January 1, 1900.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

Works 1,284,848 908,543 Allegheny Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. 900,000 435,978 The E. W. Bliss Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. 10,000 Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa. 40,286 12,047 40,286 12,047 Milton Manufacturing Co., Milton, Pa. 700,000 351,731 700,000 285,000 Hydraulic Pressed Steel Co., Cleveland, Ohio 200,000 Darling Bros., Montreal, Quebec 65,000 Spartan Machine Co., Montreal, Quebec 165,000 Robb Engineering Co., Amherst, N. J. 95,000 3,720 Motor Trucks Co., Brantford, Ontario 205,000 11,083 P. Lyall & Sons, Montreal, Quebec 845,000 318,578 Steel Products Co., Huntington, W. Va. 100,000 9,023 Armstrong Ck.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

At any rate, if there were no other reason, no self-respecting nation would allow its representatives 39 abroad to receive every courtesy and not make an equal endeavor to return the courtesy.
— from Uncle Sam Abroad by Jacob Elon Conner

Not only who was the poet, and how did he compose; but what and how was the poem, and why was it a poem and not rhymed eloquence, creation and not figured passion?
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

* Letter 46.—From Lieutenant O. P. Edgcumbe, of 1st Battalion D.C.L.I., to his father, Sir Robert Edgcumbe, Commandant at Newquay: 29th August, 1914.
— from In the Firing Line: Stories of the War by Land and Sea by Arthur St. John Adcock

Dunbar, Rev. Edward, Cal., Ark., N. Y. Methodist. Desertion of wife, and adultery.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings

We are still floundering and have not yet solved the problem of giving background, concision, accuracy, and interest to the report, of really editing copy and not merely condensing and heading it, of recognizing and developing the editorial and critical mind, and most of all, of shutting out early the shallow, the wrong-headed, the self-seeking, and the unballasted student.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

Syringes , much used for washing off insects, are rather expensive, consequently are not to be found in many small gardens; a more fortunate friend will sometimes lend one, as there is a good deal of freemasonry amongst people who indulge in the hobby of gardening.
— from Small Gardens, and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle

"We have Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, at New York, this winter, Mrs. Gower," said Dale, in gratified tones.
— from A Romance of Toronto (Founded on Fact): A Novel by Annie G. (Annie Gregg) Savigny