Its apex might be likened to a point.
— from White Fang by Jack London

Bulger was greatly troubled in his mind, and sat watching me with a most bewildered look in his loving eyes.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Then Mrs. Bunting turned back the window-curtains, and Mr. Bunting looked up the chimney and probed it with the poker.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It is not like a field of stalks, which, without any regard to the particular form of each stalk, will be mowed better or worse, according as the mowing instrument is good or bad, but rather as a group of large trees, to which the axe must be laid with judgment, according to the particular form and inclination of each separate trunk.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Mine was not until I assured myself, by looking at my sweetheart’s features, that the part she had taken had not been an entirely passive one; and I escorted the ladies to their room.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The expression being once brought in as subservient to the will, soon becomes the principal part of the promise; nor will a man be less bound by his word, though he secretly give a different direction to his intention, and with-hold himself both from a resolution, and from willing an obligation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

And except a man be lifted up in the spirit, and freed from all creatures, and altogether united to God, whatsoever he knoweth, whatsoever even he hath, it mattereth but little.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

It was during this year that the office of Falls Pilot was created by law, in consonance with the following preamble to the act: “Whereas great inconveniences have been experienced and many boats lost in attempting to pass the rapids of the Ohio for want of a Pilot, and from persons offering their services to strangers to act as Pilots, by no means qualified for this business,” &c.
— from The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday

if you could see my thoughts, you could never fancy that you were forgotten even for a moment by " Louise de Blancford ."
— from The Man-at-Arms; or, Henry De Cerons. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Again Mr. Bryan looked around, to see the chubby little girl standing on her toes, chalk in hand, still uncertain.
— from Emmy Lou: Her Book and Heart by George Madden Martin

How often they have been repeated by quivering lips, and heard as music by loving ears!
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

and Mr. Bates laughed with keen enjoyment of this delicately expressed idea.
— from The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by George Randolph Chester

And then gradually there took shape in the glass, as in a crystal ball, accented lines and dabs of color, and there grew before you the black, zigzagging scars of the trenches—although you knew them to be brown with wet clay—and behind them more black lines, only straighter—and you guessed [66] those to be reserve pits—and behind them, approaching at right angles, more black lines, only fewer and further apart—and these you judged the approach trenches.
— from Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany by Edward Lyell Fox

In the meantime the guardian, having landed very close to the spot the woman had occupied a moment before, leaped again; this time vertically upward.
— from The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

RAB PHYSICIAN Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a bubble, kneaded like a paste, To coop up and keep down on earth a space That puff of vapor from his mouth, man's soul) —To Abib, all-sagacious in our art, Breeder in me of what poor skill I boast, Like me inquisitive how pricks and cracks Befall the flesh through too much stress and strain, Whereby the wily vapor fain would slip Back and rejoin its source before the term,— And aptest in contrivance (under God)
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

’Mid fires intense did they anneal, In mountain furnaces, the quivering steel, Till trembling through each deepening hue, It settled in a midnight blue; Last they cast it, to aslake,
— from The Curse of Kehama, Volume 1 (of 2) by Robert Southey