Something is making us lazy, and that laziness can spell doom, being a compulsive lack of desire to create any noise or disturbance.
— from Black Eyes and the Daily Grind by Stephen Marlowe

Sometimes it meets us like a smile of Nature, sometimes like a glance of God; and if anything proves that there is a great past, and a great future, a Beyond, a higher world, a hidden life, it is our faith in the Beautiful.
— from Thoughts on Life and Religion An Aftermath from the Writings of The Right Honourable Professor Max Müller by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

On stones, in moss, under leaves and bark.
— from Our British Snails by J. W. (John William) Horsley

But she did not like to be helped, and I soon subsided into my usual listening and watching, which, perhaps, for one who at that time was singularly immature in all social respects, was the best policy.
— from A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

"Have to sleep in my uniform, like as not," Captain Fergus growled.
— from The Clammer and the Submarine by William John Hopkins