13. The city seems to burst into song with the advent of these golden days and silver nights.—Howells.
14. To tell the truth, the day was so fine that he regretted going in-doors.—A. S. Hardy.
15. It (education) meant the leading along the baby till he became the quick, honest, and fearless boy.—Hale.
16. The potato, usually planted in the vegetable mold left by recently exterminated forests, yielded its edible tubers with a bounteous profusion unknown to the husbandry of our day.—Greeley.
17. Born in the country he was ignorant as a sign-post of what came out of the soil.—J. T. Fields.
18. It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it.—Moody.
19. An hour’s reading of these newspaper paragraphs made a boy’s heart sick within him and caused a resolve to shoot up in it that he would turn him right about and classify him in future with quite a different order of boys.—Annie Preston.
20. He was never known to laugh.—Irving.
21. He must have had rather dull feelings not to have looked forward with some interest to her entrance into the room.—George Eliot.
22. The strength of the British Empire lies in the strength of character of the individual Englishman taken all alone by himself.—Wm. James.