So he ran on, finding from moment to moment some new beauties to admire.
— from The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner
Small hill ranches or fruit farms took the place of the mines.
— from The Killer by Stewart Edward White
For failing to suppress his real opinion, for failing to tell a deliberate falsehood, he brought upon himself the hatred of the church.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll
This brief explanation will serve to account for the appearance of Uncle Moses in Naples, where he landed on a mellow day in February, en route for Switzerland, bowed down with the responsibility of several heavy trunks, and the still heavier responsibility of four fine lumps of boys, of whose troubles, trials, tribulations, and manifold adventures, he seemed, on the present occasion, to have a mournful presentiment.
— from Among the Brigands by James De Mille
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