The newspapers discussed little else than the alleged moral laxity of Grant, Garfield, and Blaine.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

A cart-horse belonging to a Mr. Leggat, of Glasgow had been several times afflicted with the bots, and as often cured by a farrier by the name of Dawine.
— from Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

There are many lessons of good to be learned in fowl-keeping.
— from The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering by William Martin

In the pale shadows he thought a mysterious light of gladness illumined Black Roger's face before the door opened and closed, leaving him alone again.
— from The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood

And then I'd know that when that man went out and talked about my line of goods, whether he was a salesman or not, he'd swear that it was the best on earth."
— from Mixed Faces by Roy Norton

There would be nothing contrary to Buddhist faith in the fancy;—for there are many legends of good demons.
— from Exotics and Retrospectives by Lafcadio Hearn

The witty talk and merry letters of Gail Hamilton, full as they were of a mad revelry of nonsense, were a great delight to him.
— from Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas) Pickard

thou art my life; O God, thou art my home; I come to thee.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald

Insects [199] are very numerous and various, some of them both troublesome and mischievous: locusts or grasshoppers have been known to cause great destruction to the vegetable world.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

Ignorance of the evil in the world is, however, not to be predicated of those who are familiar only with the great masterpieces of literature, for if they are masterpieces, little or great, they exhibit human nature in all its aspects.
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner