Personal interest in and the old native sense of responsibility for results, ownership and use of the finished products, which have been the inspiration and soul of work in all the past, are in more and more fields gone.
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall

The only notable success on record is that scored by St. John, who set some of the eggs under a tame pigeon and secured one survivor that appears to have grown quite tame, but was, unfortunately, eaten by a hawk.
— from Birds in the Calendar by Frederick G. (Frederick George) Aflalo

When such discovery has been brought before the public in one instance, the application of the same principle to other nearly similar objects requires a much lower degree of inventive talent.
— from Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters Also, Miseries of Fishing by Richard Penn

They never could have triumphed and reached the supernatural glory which now surrounds them, had they been left to their own natural strength, or rather, weakness.
— from The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux

It is impossible to tell this part of the story without conveying some suggestion of criticism since the output never satisfied our requirements.
— from The Crisis of the Naval War by John Rushworth Jellicoe

They issued a proclamation to the inhabitants calling upon them to submit and to offer no sort of resistance on pain of severe reprisals.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

In accordance with the taste of her Royal mother for that soft language which “—sounds as if it should be writ on satin,” we have commenced by translating the old nursery song of “Ride a cock-horse” into most choice Italian, and have had it set to music by Rossini; who, we are happy to state, has performed his task entirely to the satisfaction of Mrs. Ratsey, the nurse of her Royal Highness; a lady equally anxious with ourselves to instil into the infant mind an utter contempt for everything English, except those effigies of her illustrious mother which emanate from the Mint.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

“I find,” he said, “that one needs some one really pure single activity—I should call love a single pure activity.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence