Thanks to this nearer approach and [pg 311] simplification, he imagines he sees in things those harmonies of colours which possess a great charm, and may greatly enrich nature.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Holding a wand perpendicularly before him with both hands, he moved backwards and forwards, with a mincing gait, exhibiting neither grace nor agility, but looking around with the most conceited expression I ever saw on a human face.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

In another letter to his parents written about this time, after telling of his economies in order to make the money, advanced so cheerfully but at the cost of so much self-sacrifice on their part, last as long as possible, he adds: "My greatest expense, next to living , is for canvas, frames, colors, etc., and visiting galleries.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

On one side it will be good if Oxford becomes to a much greater extent not only an all-British, but also a world university; on another side it is to be hoped that far more than ever before men of all classes in England will come to Oxford.
— from The Charm of Oxford by J. (Joseph) Wells

The scene was one to set off any figure of distinction that entered on it, and certainly when Mr. and Mrs. Grandcourt entered, no beholder could deny that their figures had distinction.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

As the sun then was, objects close in under the land were not distinctly discernible, but as my glass every now and then swept the horizon on either side, the sails of a fleet of canoes came into view.
— from The Cruise of the Mary Rose; Or, Here and There in the Pacific by William Henry Giles Kingston

It was a long, long time since Jim had been to church, but he found that on this Easter Sunday morning, Mr. and Mrs. Green expected nothing else.
— from The Girls of St. Olave's by Mabel Mackintosh

Hughes was one of the largest and most genial English natures I knew,—robust, all alive to all his human obligations; and in those troublesome days when the American question was coming to the crisis of our Civil War he was a consistent friend of the North, when the dominant feeling in English society was hostile to it, and this was a strong bond between us.
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman

"So we've got to stay up the rest of the night, and mount guard every night, have we?" grunted Darry disgustedly.
— from The High School Boys in Summer Camp by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock