The result the pure result is juice and size and baking and exhibition and nonchalance and sacrifice and volume and a section in division and the surrounding recognition and horticulture and no murmur.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

" Then follows a test of strength and [228] endurance in which both parties greatly suffer and both are embittered and neither is satisfied.
— from Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott

But still the faint music from the Past had not died away, and still the shadows waved and beckoned on the wall, strong and beautiful, and enduring, and not like the fading of a dream.
— from The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough

"The finest type of the Anglo-Saxon race I have seen from America," was the verdict pronounced upon Mr. Ercildoune, when he was a young man studying abroad, by an enthusiastic and nationally ignorant Englishman; "but then, sir," he added, "what very dark complexions you Americans have!
— from What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson

THE VOYAGE THE VOYAGE I. When the twins awoke, the sun was shining as brightly as ever, and Nip and Tup were barking at them through the hole in the roof.
— from The Eskimo Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

But in vain; For swifter than they climbed the ocean rose, And hid the palms, and buried the sepulchers Far underneath the buried pyramids; And the victorious billow swelled and beat At eagles' Alpine nests, extinguishing All lingering breath of life; and dreadfuller Than the yell rising from the battle-field Seemed the hush of every human sound.
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells

Never begin with a knot, but run a few stitches into a part that will be covered afterwards; to fasten it firmly just take a back-stitch and do not cut off the end till you have worked a few more stitches; always begin and end a needleful on the ‘right side’ of the work so as to have no loose ends at the back.
— from Church Needlework: A manual of practical instruction by Hinda M. Hands

Guise returned to his house in the Faubourg St. Antoine, still accompanied by an eager and noisy crowd, but somewhat disquieted at heart both by the king’s angry reception and the people’s enthusiastic welcome.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by François Guizot