And when the sea beast leaped out once more its eyes fell on the head, and instantly it was turned into a stone.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

If, as soon as I got into the passage, I could have transported Mr. Fairlie and Sir Percival Glyde to the uttermost ends of the earth by lifting one of my fingers, that finger would have been raised without an instant's hesitation.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Nor did I maintain it with my ancient eagerness; still my intimacy with that sect (Rome secretly harbouring many of them) made me slower to seek any other way: especially since I despaired of finding the truth, from which they had turned me aside, in Thy Church, O Lord of heaven and earth, Creator of all things visible and invisible: and it seemed to me very unseemly to believe Thee to have the shape of human flesh, and to be bounded by the bodily lineaments of our members.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I know that there are at this moment a number of people in the streets of New York, but I do not know this in the immediate way in which I know of the people whom I see by looking out of my window.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

"If heaven wills that naught be left of our mighty city, if this be thy planted purpose, thy pleasure to cast in thyself and thine to the doom of Troy; for this death indeed the gate is wide, and even now Pyrrhus will be here newly bathed in Priam's [Pg 44]
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

and of this at this day above L1800 in cash in my house, which speaks but little out of my hands in desperate condition,
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Every morning we held exactly this conversation: never any more, and never any less: and yet, invariably, however far I might have been lifted out of myself over-night, and advanced towards maturer years, by Steerforth’s companionship, or Mrs. Steerforth’s confidence, or Miss Dartle’s conversation, in the presence of this most respectable man I became, as our smaller poets sing, ‘a boy again’.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The step is taken by Novalis in a remarkable essay, Christendom in Europe , which Tieck by his erasures vainly tried to nullify, and which Friedrich Schlegel, by leaving out one most important passage, converted into a defence of Catholicism.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

The stock, after passing over the cleaning grids, drops on the Delivery Apron. KNOCK-OFF ARRANGEMENT —This is simple and durable, and is so designed as to be easily connected to the knock-off on the Breaker Lapper or other machine which follows.
— from Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery by Howard & Bullough American Machine Company

Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220 While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the length behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise, Far distant views of endless science rise!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

If we could but revive the consciousness of childhood, if we could but look out once more through its unclouded eyes, what divinity would sow the universe with light and make it radiant with fadeless visions of beauty and of truth!
— from Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Because the Babylonians were limited by lack of other material to sun or kiln-dried brick, and the Assyrians, devoid of originality, limited themselves to the same baked clay, we would scarcely expect to find pleasing or artistic buildings in either state.
— from The World's Progress, Vol. 01 (of 10) With Illustrative texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature by Delphian Society

But later on—— Oh, my boy, I don't want to make it harder for you than it is already.
— from The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

They are also furnished with 3 rings, set at equal distances, to allow of their being lifted off, or moved, by means of a pulley and chains.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Really, it’s awful, Charley, and you’d better look out or mother will give you the bounce.”
— from Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge

As I gazed with admiration upon them, he could not help observing how much I was interested, and was no doubt encouraged to think, as I intended he should be, that there would be little objection on my part to his proceeding to enact a similar scene.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous