And it is likely He took a perfected mammal, enlarged his brain-pan, stood him erect to front the stars, and breathed into him an atom of his own spirit, "and man became a living soul."
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

Strike a match, Bill, and let’s see if he put up a job on us.
— from Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Ellis Parker Butler

Gen. 2:7 — “ And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul ” —here it is not said that man was first a living soul, and that then God breathed into him a spirit; but that God inbreathed spirit, and man became a living soul =
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

She clutched me and laughingly declared I was a little savage, and my being a little savage pleased her.
— from Woman by Magdeleine Marx

Since the opening up of the heart of Africa, by the indomitable courage and zeal of such men as Speke and Moffat, Baker and Livingstone, Stanley and Cameron, Bishop Taylor and others, perhaps one of the least known portions of this habitable globe is the northern part of the great Dominion of Canada.
— from On the Indian Trail Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and Salteaux Indians by Egerton Ryerson Young

Back to contents [208] CHAPTER XIX A Potato Walk Dona's suggestion was adopted, and she and Marjorie began a little system of correspondence with Eric.
— from A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

The food of the aborigines consists chiefly of fish and shellfish, to which as subsidiary articles may be added lizards, snakes, possums, various birds, and an occasional kangaroo, turtle, dugong, or porpoise.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray

James W. Coffroth Meyer Cohn Porter Garnett John Crowley Willie Ritchie J. Cal Ewing James Wilson Andrew J. Gallagher AND TO THOSE APOLOGETIC ADOPTED SONS Albert M. Bender Austin Lewis Sam Berger Xavier Martinez Gelett Burgess Perry Newberry Michael Casey Patrick O'Brien Perry Newberry Patrick Flynn Fremont Older Will Irwin Lemuel Parton
— from The Native Son by Inez Haynes Gillmore