Even under ideal conditions it was never absolutely exact, because the apparent [50] motion of our steady-gaited old sun is not quite as dependable as most of us imagine.
— from Time Telling through the Ages by Harry Chase Brearley

"You are discharging a man of unusual business capacity—one whose acquaintance with the South is wellnigh universal, and whose combinations were on the eve of securing enormous returns."
— from Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe

Lilian was aware that he had been to Winchester and Cambridge, and done all manner of unusual things before he lit on typewriting.
— from Lilian by Arnold Bennett

The paddles and drum are more often used for light than for heavy leather, as they not only have the effect of making the leather loose on the grain, but also make it soft and 103 supple, characteristics which are not required in most of the heavy leathers.
— from Leather: From the Raw Material to the Finished Product by K. J. Adcock

It is as if, having drawn from daily observation some knowledge of the tempers of our friends, we represented them saying and doing all manner of ultra-characteristic things, and in an occasional soliloquy laying bare, even more clearly than by any possible action, that character which their observed behaviour had led us to impute to them.
— from The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

Go down, grand Book, from hoary sire to son; Keep by the Book of books thy wonted place; Tell what a son of man hath felt and done, And make of us and ours a noble race,— A race to scorn the sordid greed of gold, To spurn the spurious and contemn the base, Despise the shams that may be bought and sold,— A race of brothers and of men,—a race To usher in the long-expected time Good men have sought and prophets have foretold, When this bright world shall be the happy clime Of brotherhood and peace, when men shall mould Their lives like His who walked in Palestine; The truly human manhood thou dost show, Leading them upward to the pure divine Nature of God made manifest below.
— from Sonnets and Other Verse by William M. (William Mackay) MacKeracher

He is a statesman, a financier, a diplomat, a man of uncommon sense.’
— from The Island Mystery by George A. Birmingham

The effect is akin to that of certain kinds of poetry, not the dramatic certainly, where we are pleased by the mere suggestion of beautiful things, and quite as much by finding in the poet a mind appreciative and desirous of them, constantly collecting them and enhancing them by subtle arrangements; it is the case with much lyric verse, with the Italian folk-rhymes, woven out of names of flowers and herbs, with some of Shakespeare's and Fletcher's songs, with the "Allegro" and "Penseroso," Keats, some of Heine, and, despite a mixture of unholy intention, Baudelaire.
— from Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee

But she was so adorable; her Southern accent was so bewitching; she put so much softness in those amusing idioms "I reckon" and "Seems like," "You others," and the countless little tricks of the Southern vernacular, that Dick passed sleepless hours and delicious days dreaming and sighing and groaning and doing all manner of unreasonable things—that we all do when we meet our first Rosas and they light the torch for other feet more favored than our own.
— from The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

As a boy the superintendent was wild, and during a moment of unrestraint he slew his Sabbath-school teacher while yet a youth.
— from Maw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone by Emerson Hough