6. Dante died only seven years before Chaucer was born.—Lowell.
7. Soon his face was worth going far to see.—J. L. Allen.
8. The desolate and splintered walls of Horeb and Sinai are not a quarter so high.—King.
9. Some years ago I was traveling by railway, no matter whence or whither.—Froude.
10. He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference.—Irving.
11. Only about three weeks since, there was a leader with this or a similar title.—Ruskin.
12. I arrived one winter morning about five o’clock, and was not so full of soul as I might have been in warmer weather.—Howells.
13. Some of you are, perhaps, more livingly aware than you were an hour ago of the depths of worth that lie around you, hid in alien lives.—Wm. James.
14. He did not know that he bore with him from school and college a character worth much fine gold, but was pleased to find his mess so kindly.—Kipling.
15. This was a bad beginning; so, half an hour after the gun was withdrawn, the Austrian colonel ordered an assault.