13. The choice of Capernaum by Jesus as his future center was significant.—Geikie.
14. But his marvelous moral beauty, even as a child, attracted the attention of the Emperor Hadrian.—Lord.
15. Facts and the consequences of facts draw the writer back to the falconer’s lure from the giddiest heights of speculation.—De Quincey.
16. The northern curve of the rock basin’s wall was broken by a narrow perpendicular rift, reaching from the sky down to within sixty or eighty feet of the surface of the pool.—Bolles.
17. She starts, and is lost sight of round the cliff, gone straight away for the very ends of the world.—Jefferies.
18. A veteran American sailor, he had learned to know the great Gulf as scholars know deep books by heart.—Hearn.
19. We come, as Americans, to mark a spot which must forever be dear to us and our posterity.—Webster.
20. Two of them were guests like ourselves, both men of the north.—Stevenson.
21. Indeed, man is naturally more prone to subtlety than open valor, owing to his physical weakness in comparison with other animals.—Irving.
22. Kotick was the only one who asked questions, and none of his companions could tell him anything except that the men always drove seals in that way for six weeks or two months of every year.—Kipling.