2. A part of the citizens seceded from the main body, and formed a separate community on the neighboring marshes.—Prescott.
3. He is great who confers the most benefits.—Emerson.
4. After two hours’ march the cortege stopped at the end of the quay, where the Prince de Joinville had stationed himself at the head of the officers of the three French ships of war.—Thackeray.
5. How many men and women perform their daily tasks from the highest motives alone—for the glory of God and the relief of man’s estate?—C. W. Eliot.
6. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for another.—Dickens.
7. He lifted his enormous ears, gave a short trumpet, and for an instant wavered in his determination whether to attack or fly.—Sir Samuel Baker.
8. Simplicity must be the first element of literary art.—Higginson.
9. I touched him on the shoulder, at which he collared me and nearly knocked me down.—Miss Mulock.
10. Those were the days when a man could hold three small livings, starve a curate apiece on two of them, and live badly himself on the third.—George Eliot.
11. A woman kept the summer school, sharp, precise, unsympathetic, keen and untiring.—Beecher.