4. Among people who submit to great physical suffering that they may have themselves handsomely tattooed, extremes of temperature are borne with but little attempt at mitigation.—Spencer.
5. He is not tempted to levity or impatience, for he does not see the joke and is thick-skinned to present evils.—Bagehot.
6. We should naturally think that excitement and pleasure and knowledge would make people happy, since they stimulate the intellectual powers.—Lord.
7. Then she dropped her head quickly, so that her own face remained hidden, and silently plied her work.—J. L. Allen.
8. Their visit was not wholly unexpected, for his house, which fronted the street, was strongly barricaded, the wicket gate of the prison was closed up, and at no loop hole or grating was any person to be seen.—Dickens.
9. The larger trees he had girdled and killed in order that their foliage should not cast a shade.—Wm. James.
10. The Watsons were doubtless rich people, for they had the confidence of conscious wealth in their bearing.—Brontë.
11. There are actually districts in Africa where three natives cannot be sent on a message in case two should combine and sell the third before they return.—Drummond.
12. Here was one who never resisted any temptation, never had a desire but he coddled and pampered it.—Thackeray.
13. A man cannot speak but he judges himself.—Emerson.