7 I see the battle-fields of the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn, I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier, I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony, glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart’s core.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

They must be managed by a resolute will which holds the reins with a firm grip, and by a calm intelligence, skilled to direct them.
— from Serious Hours of a Young Lady by Charles Sainte-Foi

Cethegus, who had accounted for the weapons found in his house by declaring that he had always been a connoisseur in such things, was overwhelmed by hearing his letter read, and said nothing.
— from Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church

The calyx adhærens or superus is a structural characteristic to which all botanists attach considerable importance; so that when exceptional cases occur in which the calyx becomes detached from the ovary, becomes, that is, inferus or liber , a proportionate degree of interest attaches to the irregularity.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

He soon had a plentiful supply that was almost boiling, and, cooling it somewhat, the naturalist
— from The Motor Boys Across the Plains; or, The Hermit of Lost Lake by Clarence Young

Now everybody who is afflicted by any calamity is said to have sinned; but when a little child, which is still in the womb of its mother and hath just been formed, is found to be blind, deaf or imperfect, how could it have committed any sin that we might say this imperfection is given to it as a punishment therefore—so, though such a child hath not done outwardly any sin in the womb of its mother,
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

"I see no reason why the Guardian should not go on and continue to be the successful underwriting institution it has always been, and certainly I shall try my hardest to make it so.
— from White Ashes by Alden Charles Noble

Therefore it is owing to charity that faith is the foundation: so that charity is the foundation yet more than faith is (for the foundation is the first part of a building) and consequently it seems to precede faith.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint