“On the eve of the Assumption I bent my steps towards the interior, to visit the Tsiampois, and find out whether they would still reject the good news of salvation.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

Again her name was syllabled, and she shuddered as she asked herself, am I becoming mad, or am I dying, that I hear the voices of the departed?
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is more difficult to teach ignorance to think than to teach an intelligent blind man to see the grandeur of Niagara.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

In 1862 Dr. Duchenne published two editions, in folio and octavo, of his 'Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine,' in which he analyses by means of electricity, and illustrates by magnificent photographs, the movements of the facial muscles.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Between the lines, where Warren's assault was to take place, there was a ravine grown up with large trees and underbrush, making it almost impenetrable by man.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Wharves were built, houses were springing up as if by magic, and the Bay of San Francisco presented as busy a scene of life as any part of the world.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Thereupon he brought his cloth out of his knapsack, spread it on the ground, and said, "Little cloth, cover thyself," and instantly boiled meat and baked meat stood there, and as hot as if it had just come out of the kitchen.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

although Tiberius be nearer related to me than thou art, I, by my own determination, and the conspiring suffrage of the gods, do give and put into thy hand the Roman empire; and I desire thee never to be unmindful when thou comest to it, either of my kindness to thee, who set thee in so high a dignity, or of thy relation to Tiberius.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The same man discourseth notably to the same effect in his Oration Pro Sestio , a little after the midst thereof, showing that in the life of men dispersed, vis , beareth all the sway; but in the civil life, ars is better maintained, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The Hospice stands on a high hill, just the place for Roman fever to disappear as if by magic for a time, and the patient, relieved of his lassitude, set to work with energy, aided by Fra Paolino and Fra Agostino.
— from Fra Bartolommeo by Leader Scott

At this juncture Gen. Van Cleve halted his division and the most terrible state of suspense pervaded the entire line, as it became more and more evident that the right was being driven rapidly back upon us.
— from Personal recollections and experiences concerning the Battle of Stone River by Milo S. Hascall

Mile after mile passed without incident of any kind until, at a second's notice, I rode into a ring of muskets which closed round me out of vacancy as if by magic.
— from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

Morris was even more active in befriending Madame de Lafayette and her children.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

I stood on the border of an unknown plant zone, full of wondrous forms which lay as if by magic before me....
— from The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel by Frank Aubrey

At the first sound of the car whistle every one turned good-natured as if by magic, and flew to the gate smiling as if all mishaps were forgiven and forgotten.
— from Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott

The smugglers carried away one by one as many of the spirit kegs as I believed might lie in the bottom of the St. Magnus .
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton

At the appointed hour, as if by magic, time changed his noisy course into a silent flight.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

And as I before mentioned, the admired Claude, whom I rank of the Italian school, is of a very low key, delighting in masses of deep tones.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

For too contagious grows the mirth, the warmth Escaping from so many hearts at once— When the good wife, buxom and bonny yet, Jokes the hale grandsire,—such are just the sort To go off suddenly,—he who hides the key O' the box beneath his pillow every night,— Which box may hold a parchment (some one thinks) Will show a scribbled something like a name "Cinino, Ciniccino," near the end, "To whom I give and I bequeath my lands, Estates, tenements, hereditaments, When I decease as honest grandsire ought."
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning