He himself wanted to hear more songs—"Annie Laurie," or "The Robert E. Lee ," or something like them—but they asked him to keep on.
— from Running Free by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

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— from New Books & New Editions, Published by Ward, Lock, and Tyler by Ward, Lock, & Tyler

No smile, no wink, no remark, either lively or sensible, ever melted the ice of her countenance.
— from The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates

And there will be deadly hunger, but no food; parching thirst, but no water; eternal fatigue, but no rest; eternal lust of sensuous and intellectual pleasures, but no gratification.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Attached to them was a note, which read: "Easy landing on soft slope.
— from The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service by James R. Driscoll

No conception had been formed of it, except by a small number of philosophic minds who had taken their stand upon the recently established laws of social science, and had found themselves able, without recourse to any chimerical views, to gain some general insight into the political future, of which Condorcet, my principal predecessor, knew so little.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

Location, organization, accounting, buying, sales, and pricing, the factors whose management means success or failure in any retail establishment, large or small, receive thorough treatment.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Hence in every one of his prose writings there are repetitions, either literal or substantial, of passages to be found in some others of those writings; and there are several particular positions and reasonings, which he considered of vital importance, reiterated in the "Friend," the "Literary Life," the "Lay Sermons," the "Aids to Reflection," and the "Church and State."
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge