In the book of a German graphomaniac entitled Rembrandt als Erzieher , Leipzig, 1890 (a book which I shall have to refer to more than once, as an example of the lucubrations of a weak mind), I find, on the very first pages, the following juxtaposition of words according to their resemblance in sound: ‘Sie verkünden eine Rückkehr ...
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

I dreamed of the fall of the Caesars, and of a great Greek Empire risen from the ruins, powerful and brilliant under the special protection of the gods of Olympus; and each one of us must labor to bring about the realization of this dream.
— from Serapis — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers

Next evening when preparation began, Pietrie and Graham got everything ready for the carouse in their classroom.
— from Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Such a tax should never be laid by a government guaranteeing equal right.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann

Before a week be gone This barren woodside and this leafless wold A million flowers shall invade With argent and azure, pearl and gold,— Like rainbow fragments scattered of the dawn,— Here making bright, here wan {305} Each foot of earth, each glen and glimmering glade, Each rood of windy wood, Where late gaunt Winter stood, Shaggy with snow and howling at the sky; Where even now the Springtime seems afraid To whisper of the beauty she designs, The flowery campaign that she now outlines Within her soul; her heart’s conspiracy To take the world with loveliness; defy
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 5 (of 5) Poems of meditation and of forest and field by Madison Julius Cawein

In this way we have seven distinct grades of pigmentation, and the series is further complicated by the fact that these various grades exhibit a rather different amount of pigmentation according as they occur in a male or a female bird, for, generally speaking, the female of a given grade exhibits rather more pigment than the corresponding male.
— from Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett

The girl, who wore a gorgeous garnet engagement ring, also very new, merely rested her hand on her lover's coat sleeve where she could see the light play upon the stones.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright