Those, then, that have such pleasant, clear, and painless dreams, and no frightful, or harsh, or malignant, or untoward apparition, may be said to have reflections of their progress in virtue; whereas agitation and panics and ignoble flights, and boyish delights, and lamentations in the case of sad and strange dreams, are like the waves that break on the coast, the soul not having yet got its proper composure, but being still in course of being moulded by opinions and laws, from which it escapes in dreams as far 134 as possible, so that it is once again set free and open to the passions.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Anne breathed deeply, and looked into the clear sky beyond the dark boughs of the firs.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Explanation—Thus partiality is an effect of love, and disparagement an effect of hatred: so that partiality may also be defined as love, in so far as it induces a man to think too highly of a beloved object.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Keep watch at both door and loophole, if thou see fit; but I gi'e thee my word that I'll not escape."
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby

I came on a barn door, and, looking in, saw all the red face mixed in the straw like plums in a cake.
— from St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson

His father loved him little; his mother loved him as the apple of her eye—and all the more because being born with a full and complete set of teeth, old gossips and venerable grey-beards augured a strange and eventful career; beside which, certain singular spectral visitations and experiences of his mother, ere, and shortly after the young eyes opened on the world, convinced her that he was born to no common destiny—much of which has already been detailed at length in “Dhoula Bel: or the Magic Globe.”
— from The Wonderful Story of Ravalette by Paschal Beverly Randolph

—This is formed by putting a small quantity of each kind of ice into the same mold, taking care to have as great a variety of colors placed so as to produce a contrast; cover the mold with salt and ice as before directed, and let it remain half an hour, when it will be fit to turn out.
— from How to Make Candy A Complete Hand Book for Making All Kinds of Candy, Ice Cream, Syrups, Essences, Etc., Etc. by Anonymous

Also let C F be a diameter of the great circle which divides the bright part of the Moon from the dark part (for, owing to the very great distance of the Sun from the Moon this circle does not differ sensibly from a great one), and let the distance of A from the point C be 1/20th part of that diameter; let the radius E A be drawn, and let it be produced to cut the tangent line [30] G C D , which represents the ray that illumines the summit, in the point D .
— from The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries by Galileo Galilei

In some way—I am not certain how it came about, since "made" conversation is at best disjointed and lacks in sequence—a random remark inspired a challenge from Mr. F., who offered to lay a bet that I was in the wrong.
— from My Actor-Husband: A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

The process is simple: it only requires attention in skimming, and keeping the mass from boiling over, till it has arrived at the sugaring point, which is ascertained by dropping a little into cold water.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

This thesis has already been developed at length in another chapter, where the present unsatisfactory organization and conditions of agriculture were also discussed.
— from The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson

Yet although differing from the Uiguric, Prof. Thomsen, who has successfully deciphered the Orkhon text, thinks that this script may also be derived, at least indirectly through some of the Iranian varieties, from the same Aramean (Syriac) form of the Semitic alphabet that gave birth to the Uiguric [693] .
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

At lower levels, since dust absorbs heat quickly and gives it out quickly, its presence raises the temperature of the air by day and lowers it by night.
— from Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington