5. Æschylus was, head and heart, a lyric poet.—Macaulay.
6. The dog-whip is six yards long, and the handle but sixteen inches.
7. Civilis was hemmed in by the ocean; his country, long the basis of Roman military operations, was accessible by river and canal.—Motley.
8. Sea Catch was fifteen years old, a huge gray fur-seal with almost a mane on his shoulders, and long, wicked dog-teeth.—Kipling.
9. He was the representative of the great dynasty whose name and effigies had been borne by all the coin of India until within some twenty years before.—McCarthy.
10. It is better to do a few things precisely as they should be done, than to do ten times as many in a loose, slovenly way.
11. One of these tunes, just as it had sounded from her spiritual touch, had been written down by an amateur of music.—Hawthorne.
12. He was a lean, nervous, flibbertigibbet of a man, with something the look of an actor, and something the look of a horse jockey.—Stevenson.
13. The shock to the senses there, as one rides out from the level and sheltered forest, up to which our horses had been climbing two days, is scarcely less than if he had been instantly borne to a region where the Creator reveals more of himself in his works than can be learned from the ordinary scenery of this world.—King.
14. Thus the whole life upon the globe, as we see it, is the result of this blind groping and putting forth of nature in every direction.—Burroughs.