The sun shone somewhat to the left and behind him and brightly lit up the enormous panorama which, rising like an amphitheater, extended before him in the clear rarefied atmosphere.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

So magnificent a prediction reminds us of the prophet Isaias on the establishment of the Church: "Jerusalem, thou who sayest, I am barren! lift up thine eyes and look all around thee.
— from The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe

"What kind is it?" asked Bobby looking up to encounter Mr. Kincaid's amused gaze.
— from The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Stewart Edward White

You must go and buy two or three yards of calico, or printed linen, and make a double bag, and on the mouth of the bag, on that side next to you, you must make four or five little purses, in which you must put two or three eggs in a purse; and do so till you have filled that side next to you; and have a hole made at one end of your bag, that no more than two or three eggs come out at once; then you must have another bag, like unto that exactly, that one must not be known from the other; and then put a living hen into that bag, and hang it on a hook on that side you stand.
— from Hocus Pocus; or The Whole Art of Legerdemain, in Perfection. By which the meanest capacity may perform the whole without the help of a teacher. Together with the Use of all the Instruments belonging thereto. by Henry Dean

"Any further questions, Mr. Salisbury?" asked the captain, bestowing a bored look upon the executive officer.
— from Stand By The Union by Oliver Optic

With a single jerk, the officer released the first torpedo, even as both lads, unable to endure the suspense and inaction any longer, leaped upon him.
— from The Boy Allies under Two Flags by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

Could he be prevailed upon to abandon his present weak mode of securing the Galla dependencies, to strengthen them by those military arrangements for which the country is so peculiarly adapted, and to place a better limit upon the exactions of frontier governors, what bloodshed and misery might not be averted!
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

Combats, persecutions, and banishments lasted until the end of the eighteenth century.
— from Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles

And he was gone," Thanks, Wilfred Gibson, you who have made articulate the voice of the downtrodden of the world, the poetic "Fires" which have lighted up with sudden glow the slums, the slag heaps, the factories, the coal mines, and hidden common ways of folks who toil; thanks that you have also beautifully lighted up the "End of the Trail" of your friend and our friend, Poet Rupert Brooke; lighted it with the light that shines from eternity.
— from Giant Hours with Poet Preachers by William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger

This investigation, almost at one stroke, throws a blinding light upon the entire field of the phenomena; accounting in large part for the vast aggregate of testimony in favor of miracles by actual witnesses, demonstrating the readiness with which we may unwittingly deceive ourselves by false observation and others by lapses of [156] memory, as to what we actually witnessed; and again presenting the nature of these fallible characteristics of sense-perception and memory, of inference and judgment, so strikingly and tangibly as to serve as a classic illustration for the psychologist.
— from Fact and Fable in Psychology by Joseph Jastrow