There is a book, who runs may read, / Which heavenly truth imparts, / And all the love its scholars need, / Pure eyes and Christian hearts. /
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Next we heard screams, and Frau Brandt came wildly plowing and plunging through the crowd with her dress in disorder and hair flying loose, and flung herself upon her dead child with moans and kisses and pleadings and endearments; and by and by she rose up almost exhausted with her outpourings of passionate emotion, and clenched her fist and lifted it toward the sky, and her tear-drenched face grew hard and resentful, and she said: “For nearly two weeks I have had dreams and presentiments and warnings that death was going to strike what was most precious to me, and day and night and night and day I have groveled in the dirt before Him praying Him to have pity on my innocent child and save it from harm—and here is His answer!”
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

In physical endurance and contentment he was cousin to the pine and the rock.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

It in by this omnipresent superstition that the respectable religious have been conditioned in their history and are modified at present, even as Christianity has been influenced in its progress by ethnic or local ideas and temperaments, and will be yet in its course of victory in the Mikado's empire.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The outcome was the erection of the perfectly equipped and commodious headquarters of the Barbican Mission situated on the main thoroughfare of Whitechapel, and known as "The Gordon Calthrop Memorial," which was dedicated and opened in the spring of 1901.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Coal gas, mineral oils, alcohol, petrol, etc., all contain hydrogen and carbon.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

no one surpassed him in the moderation which he showed in political contests, or in his power of attaching friends and gaining allies: in intrigue, stratagem, and laying plots against a foe, and in bringing them to a successful termination by personal endurance and courage, he was pre-eminent.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

She reflected that perhaps this girl felt the weight of poverty even as Constance had once felt its pressure.
— from Marjorie Dean, High School Senior by Josephine Chase

"There is a Book, who runs may read, Which heavenly truth imparts; And all the lore its scholars need, Pure eyes and Christian hearts."
— from Plain Words for Christ, Being a Series of Readings for Working Men by Reginald G. Dutton

In all his meditations, prayers, experiences, and contemplations, he condemns them.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

Sir Tristram wandered through various countries, achieving the most perilous enterprises, and covering himself with glory, yet unhappy at the separation from his beloved Isoude.
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

The stars were beginning to go out, the horizon was crossed by pale bands, the breeze grew sharper and colder; all foreboded, in fact, the approach of dawn, when suddenly a slight noise, resembling that produced by the fracture of a withered branch, smote on the hunter's practised ear, and caused him to start.
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

He came, the first time, one afternoon in the winter dusk—a boy, tall and slight, long narrow pale clean-shaven face, hair parted in the middle and hanging over his forehead, nose prominent, eyes alight, certain himself of the worth of his drawings, too modest not to fear that other artists might not agree with him.
— from Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Mr Marshall, who holds the Chair of Political Economy at Cambridge, has written "Economics of Industry" (1879), and "Principles of Economics" (1890).
— from Victorian Literature: Sixty Years of Books and Bookmen by Clement King Shorter

"Let Parker and Old Heck divide up on Ophelia," Chuck advised, "one of them can love her one day and the other the next—" "That's reasonable," Bert declared, "she'd probably enjoy a change herself."
— from The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman

And though there are vessels, that in some measure furnish exceptions to this; and though, in other ships, the thing may be glazed over by a guarded, punctilious exterior, almost completely hiding the truth from casual visitors, while the worst facts touching the common sailor are systematically kept in the background, yet it is certain that what has here been said of the domestic interior of a man-of-war will, in a greater or less degree, apply to most vessels in the Navy.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville