Since the birds native to Australia are so interesting in themselves, and are so varied in kind, Australians should know, love, and jealously protect these beautiful creatures.
— from An Australian Bird Book: A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach

[Pg 49] "Well, there is a certain virtue in knotting a silk thread, for the reason that it is almost impossible to untie, even in the light, and to break it, we will agree, invalidates the sitting.
— from The Shadow World by Hamlin Garland

We do, indeed, find a tendency to resolve the virtues into knowledge, and, so far, either to identify them with one another, or to carry them up into the unity of a higher idea.
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn

The bay in the vicinity is known as St. Picker's Bay, and St. Fittack's Well, a clear spring near the roofless ruins of the old church, still recalls his memory.
— from A Calendar of Scottish Saints by Michael Barrett

There were also accusations of intriguing with the O’Mores, of spoiling a village in Kildare and slaughtering the people even at the altar, of using the Castle of Arklow to rob the lieges by land and sea, of levying illegal taxes, and, in short, of behaving as Anglo-Irish noblemen generally did.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

Furniture has always varied in kind and style, according to the needs and customs of its users.
— from The Mentor: Furniture and its Makers, Vol. 1, Num. 30, Serial No. 30 by Charles R. (Charles Russell) Richards

There is but one view in Kashima a stretch of perfectly flat pasture and plough-land, running up to the gray-blue scrub of the Dosehri hills.
— from Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling