The closing hours of the horse or the dog are also, perhaps, more complacent in general, and their deaths are less a matter of rejoicing to those who are to succeed to their mangers and cushions.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

But at length a method of reconciling these extremes was found out, by contriving one of the usual articles in his favor.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

“You are brilliant, I grant you,” he said; “but you are like a mirror, only reflecting things.
— from The Angel of Pain by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The church is three hundred and four feet long, and from the centre rose a tower, three of the massive supporting pillars of which remain, but the tower has fallen and lies a mass of rubbish; the stained glass from the great east window having been removed to Bowness Church, in Westmorelandshire.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

It became at last a matter of rejoicing to Mrs. Trafford that the ties of the old instinctive tenderness between herself and her son, the memories of pain and tears and the passionate conflict of childhood, were growing so thin and lax and inconsiderable, that she could even hope some day to talk to him again—almost as she talked to the young men and young women who drifted out of the unknown to her and sat in her little room and sought to express their perplexities -410- and listened to her advice....
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This is a larger and more original relation than the modern attitude of appreciation and admiration of nature.
— from The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey