11. His first problem is the growth of great fortunes, and the collocation of wealth and poverty in large cities.
12. They laud the commission’s report, and exult in its conclusions as the final vindication of their own motives and methods.
13. We have learned, or ought to have learned by this time, that the use of a mark of punctuation often depends wholly upon the sense of the language, and not upon grammatical construction.
14. Untrammeled physical motions may here perfectly express the feelings that elsewhere have to stay unexpressed, or be, at best, imperfectly expressed by a trammeled tongue.
15. A tiny owl with a queer little voice called continually, not only after nightfall, but in the bright afternoon.
16. His speech was noteworthy, not for its eloquence, but because of the effect it produced upon the public.
17. The secret of life is, not to do what one likes, but to try to like that which one has to do; and one does come to like it in time.
18. Mortality; the insane, feeble-minded, deaf and dumb, and blind; crime, pauperism, and benevolence; education; churches; foreign-born population; and manufacturers, are the subjects of his report.
19. Elijah is not the only one who has heard in the wilderness a still, small voice.
20. A holy war—oh, the irony of the appellation!—means the legitimatizing of slaughter, rapine, and plunder.