Mary Ballard's mother, while scarcely past her prime, was taken ill with fever and died, and immediately upon this blow to the dear old father who was not yet old enough by many years to be beyond his usefulness to those who loved and depended on him, came the tragic death of Lincoln, whom he revered and in whom all his hopes for the right adjustment of the nation's affairs rested.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Not even the Louvre oil painting expresses the whole Erasmus quite so completely or so nobly as this little drawing of the man whom Holbein had loved and revered for twenty years; and to whom he owed, in the first place, the splendid opportunities of his career in England.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
The tiger noticed him and got up; but discerning this human's own benign posture directed toward the same sunset, the tiger returned to where it was at and once again revered the sun.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills