2. The white-coated sentinels never cease to pace the bastions, night or day.—Howells.
3. Marcus Aurelius is immortal, not so much for what he did as for what he was.—Lord.
4. To the right lay the sea, sometimes at full tide, sometimes withdrawn to the very horizon; but he knew it for the same sea.—Kipling.
5.
Outside her kennel, the mastiff old
Lay fast asleep, in moonshine cold.—Coleridge.
6. Come to read the other side of her, she had a trust in God Almighty that was like the bow-anchor of a three-decker.—Holmes.
7. “What is a Caucus-race?” said Alice; not that she much wanted to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.—Lewis Carroll.
8. The General was on his feet as if by the touch of a spring.—Cable.
9. It isn’t fair to judge a man’s promise by one performance, and that one a livery stable, so I shall say nothing.—Mrs. Wiggin.