[Footnote: Though we are concerned here with Whittier's poetry, we should at least mention certain of his prose works, such as Legends of New England , Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal and Old Portraits and Modern Sketches .
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats —a humorous tale written by Mrs. Sharp, a lady of ninety, edited by John Ruskin, who added the third, fourth, eighth, and ninth stanzas, and illustrated by Kate Greenaway—has this pleasing trait of action to a unique degree.
— from A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura Fry Kready

“Yet, I think, Hussein Khan, the ram that led those three was the father of all markhôr in these mountains, for never did I see a larger one, nor even so large a one.
— from The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford

"I suppose we should have expected that sooner or later we'd run into something a little outside normal experience."
— from Unthinkable by Rog Phillips

And you would also be provided with books to read and study, at little or no expense, if you appeared to be anxious to learn, and were faithful and diligent, in order to gain time.
— from Letters to Persons Who Are Engaged in Domestic Service by Catharine Esther Beecher

As courtiers therefore justle for a grant, And when they break their friendship, plead their want, So thou, if Fortune will thy suit advance, Love on, nor envy me my equal chance: For I must love, and am resolved to try My fate, or failing in the adventure die.
— from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite by Geoffrey Chaucer

These counties also gave birth to the University of Cambridge; the Puritan movement in England was largely under the leadership of men who had studied in Cambridge, and it was that educational center of broad culture, thought, and inspiring ideals which furnished America the first scholars and leaders of New England.
— from Home Missions in Action by Edith H. (Edith Hedden) Allen

It was an extraordinary life, full of uncertainties and sudden surprises ... a life of never-ending energy, with little rest even in sleep, for into his dreams there crept all the tangle of the day's happenings.
— from Mightier than the Sword by Alphonse Courlander

From each of them there springs a long olfactory nerve, extending for the whole length of the rostrum to the olfactory sack.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour