Everything is grey—except the green grass, which seems like emerald amongst it; grey earthy rock; grey clouds, tinged with the sunburst at the far edge, hang over the grey sea, into which the sand-points stretch like grey fingers.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

We are now able to understand how the totemic principle, [Pg 229] and in general, every religious force, comes to be outside of the object in which it resides.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

If in my knowledge of THE secret I do what I can to spare an innocent girl (especially, remembering your own reference to her when you told my story to the assembled guests at Chesney Wold) from the taint of my impending shame, I act upon a resolution I have taken.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

When the stern supernaturalist reminds us that the child's nature is intrinsically evil, and that therefore in arresting its growth education renders him a priceless service, we answer that, in arresting the growth of the child's nature as a whole, education arrests the growth of all the master faculties of his being, and that there are some at least among these which, even in the judgment of the supernaturalist, imperatively need to be trained.
— from What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Edmond Holmes

Then we shall assist in getting evergreens ready for the decoration; and we expect our mothers and sisters with flowers to be arranged in vases for the altar, while we are twining and putting up wreaths.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

The rich satin curtains, with their costly fringes, swept down on either side of it, and around it glittered every rare and fanciful trifle which wealth can offer to luxury, and yet that simple rose was the fairest of them all.
— from McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

[Pg 80] "Well, that night Winters and I got everything ready, and had all his things packed in a bundle at the foot of the tree, and a little before midnight by the full moon, Winters went up and crawled out on the limb to bend it down, but when he got there it wouldn't bend far enough to reach Minty Glenwood's window—him being a light-weight person, though I've heard he got fatter later on.
— from Hollow Tree Nights and Days by Albert Bigelow Paine

Tenements created by way of beneficial feoffment are in general easily recognised.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

" "Yes," added Sir Patrick; "and if Granville ever returns, Marion, you will of course receive him coldly, give yourself all the airs of injured merit, and, in short, treat him from the very first as a flagrant criminal.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

The rich satin curtains, with their costly fringes, swept down on either side of it, and around it glittered every rare and fanciful trifle which wealth can offer to luxury; and yet that simple rose was the fairest of them all.
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

A few are universal constituents, as the earths and alkalies; in general each race of plants only absorbs such as are peculiar to itself.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

With the waning of the Christian influence, the first stage of asceticism has become a less and less frequent halting-place, and asceticism itself, grown equally rare, is often reached by another route.
— from Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas by Remy de Gourmont