But if it be madness to think so, there is no reason why we should think that, on account of their inhabiting a loftier element, the demons have a claim to our religious submission.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Our search was all in vain and no answer came to our repeated shouts.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

A certain tenderness of respect, such as the crowd seldom shows, was in the salutations Dura gave to the son of the ruined man who had so long reigned among them.
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

A conical tent of reindeer skin, inside of which a fire was lighted, was part of the outfit.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

" The blue is shown behind a square window: "It is blue, blue, blue ," etc. (4) The child is given a circular tablet of red sugar to eat and a square lump of blue sugar.
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

It is a charming tree, or rather shrub, in this country, for one rarely sees it more than 10 feet high, and one that, to do it justice, must have a cool and rather damp soil and a somewhat shady situation.
— from Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster

As far as they went, nothing could be more valuable than these sketches, and the public, glancing rapidly at their general and graceful effects, could hardly form anything like an estimate of the endurance and determination which must have been necessary in such a climate to obtain records so patient, entire, and clear, of details
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

She rubs her mouth and eyes with her dusty cambric handkerchief, she ties up her nightcap into a little bundle, and replaces it by a more becoming headpiece, covered with withered artificial flowers and crumpled tags of ribbon; she looks wistfully at the company for an instant, and then places her handkerchief before her mouth:—her eyes roll strangely about for an instant, and you hear a faint clattering noise: the old lady has been getting her teeth ready, which had lain in her basket among the bonbons, pins, oranges, pomatum, bits of cake, lozenges, prayer-books, peppermint-water, copper-money, and false hair—stowed away there during the voyage.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

"We're not going to do the first, in any case," the officer replied sturdily; "but that is a good dodge—to turn on the light.
— from Under the Star-Spangled Banner: A Tale of the Spanish-American War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton