But the menhaden fishery Page 330 [Pg 330] is valuable just the same, for there's more oil and better oil got every year from menhaden than there is whale oil.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

"There would be an inquest, every bit of gossip, everything you had ever done would be brought to light; the verdict would be insanity——" "Oh, Auntie !"
— from Leonie of the Jungle by Joan Conquest

Christmas was a blaze of glory every year in Hollyhill.
— from Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains; or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Stella M. Francis

Live in security, by the blessing of God; enjoy your prosperity with your children; and strive, now as always, to show forth the true Roman type of character.
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

Why, you bonny old Greek empress, you are as jolly a gipsy queen as ever!
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

—Look up the facts about any of the following subjects, think them over, make the persons and scenes real to your own mind, and write as though trying to make the story clear, intelligible, interesting, and vivid to a boy or girl eight years old.
— from Elementary Composition by George R. (George Rice) Carpenter