It is a simple strain, well suited to the early season; there are no intricacies in it, but its honest cheer and directness, with its slight plaintive tinge, like that of the sun gilding the treetops, go straight to the heart.
— from Fresh Fields by John Burroughs

To even suggest that all necessary information isn't contained therein, is enough to have you clobbered.
— from Border, Breed Nor Birth by Mack Reynolds

In the earlier sculptures there are no indications of the metal cuirass or of greaves, but the latter subsequently came into vogue; they were of metal and reached to the knees.
— from British and Foreign Arms & Armour by Charles Henry Ashdown

“The Tories,” said I, “seem to think themselves exceedingly secure; they attach no importance to the neutral members; it was but the other day, Lord—told me that he did not care a straw for Mr.—, notwithstanding he possessed four votes.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But the earthly sorrow, time and new interests would have remedied ere youth had passed.
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher

At a distance of 12 or 15 miles they will distinguish animals from timber, even supposing they are not in motion.
— from Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri Edited with Notes and Biographical Sketch by Edwin Thompson Denig