12. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.—Irving.
13. We cannot transform the world except very slowly.—Higginson.
14. It was near the close of a bright summer afternoon that I visited this celebrated spot for the first time.—Longfellow.
15. No well-endowed clergy were on the alert to quit their cathedrals and set up a pompous hierarchy in the frozen wilderness.—Everett.
16. Mowgli repeated with the Kite’s whistle at the end of the sentence.—Kipling.
17. We are continually assuming that nations become strong according to their numbers.—Ruskin.
18. Owing to circumstances over which he had had entire control, the Colonel’s reputation—either as a promoter or as anything else—was of a sort that no longer could be trifled with.—Janvier.
19. Now, notwithstanding this state of his own feelings, he had never made a declaration in so many words to Miss Wilkins.—R. M. Johnston.
20. She was seated across a donkey between a pair of glittering milk-cans; and, as she went, she kicked jauntily with her heels upon the donkey’s side, and scattered shrill remarks among the wayfarers.—Stevenson.
21. He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.—Kipling.