8. Besides the cattle we saw no living thing except a few birds and a great many fishermen.—Stevenson.
9. I passed some pleasant hours, a few years since, in the Registry of Deeds and the Town Records, looking up the history of the old house.—Holmes.
10. Dennis dealt him a blow upon the face which felled him to the ground.—Dickens.
11. The strength of a rope may be but the strength of its weakest part; but poets are to be judged in their happiest hours, and in their greatest works.—Birrell.
12. Why are you not on your way home?—Froude.
13. Many a gardener will cut you a bouquet of his choicest blossoms for small fee, but he does not love to let the seeds of his rarest varieties go out of his own hands.—Holmes.
14. The spirit of local self-government, always the life-blood of liberty, was often excessive in its manifestations.—Motley.
15. Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.—Kipling.
16. This was not the first time that I had been refused a lodging.—Stevenson.
17. It cost him the best years of his life to conquer them.—Lord.