8. Haste can make you slipshod, but it can never make you graceful.—Higginson.
9. A murderer he has written himself down.—Birrell.
10. If you will only call a headache a Cephalalgia it acquires dignity at once, and a patient becomes rather proud of it.—Holmes.
11. When mobs were roaring themselves hoarse for Wilkes and liberty, he denounced Wilkes as a worthless profligate.—J. R. Green.
12. Before he had finished his toilet a stroke of apoplexy stretched him senseless upon the floor.—Motley.
13. Sad or sinful is the life of that man who finds not the heavens bluer and the waves more musical in maturity than in childhood.—Higginson.
14. Meanwhile the French and Bretons made good their ascent on either flank.—J. R. Green.
15. The excitement on shore became wild; men shouted themselves hoarse; women laughed and cried.—Hearn.
16. In the fullness of my heart I laid bare our plans before him.—Stevenson.
17. They have criticised the Insurrection as evincing in the rioters an extreme backwardness to battle.—Carlyle.