Standing on the snow-covered plain, as if in a pasture amid the hills, I cut my way first through a foot of snow, and then a foot of ice, and open a window under my feet, where, kneeling to drink, I look down into the quiet parlor of the fishes, pervaded by a softened light as through a window of ground glass, with its bright sanded floor the same as in summer; there a perennial waveless serenity reigns as in the amber twilight sky, corresponding to the cool and even temperament of the inhabitants.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Our pontifical writers retain many of these adjurations and forms of exorcisms still in the church; besides those in baptism used, they exorcise meats, and such as are possessed, as they hold, in Christ's name.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Standing on the [282] snow-covered plain, as if in a pasture amid the hills, I cut my way first through a foot of snow, and then a foot of ice, and open a window under my feet, where, kneeling to drink, I look down into the quiet parlor of the fishes, pervaded by a softened light as through a window of ground glass, with its bright sanded floor the same as in summer; there a perennial waveless serenity reigns as in the amber twilight sky, corresponding to the cool and even temperament of the inhabitants.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Because, if the principle noun does everywhere else signify a virgin; and if it be here meant of the Virgin Mary, and was afterwards properly applied to her, it cannot with any truth be applied to the wife of Isaiah.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

If so, you will understand that I am particularly anxious to have it cleared up."
— from The Avenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Then she became like a policeman and took him in charge, and I was left smoking my cigarette all alone.
— from Arundel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The happiness he seeks is not passive enjoyment, but an occupation, a pursuit adapted to his inborn capacities.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January 1885 by Various

263 Strange that Sullivan had not noticed it and put a trustworthy herder in charge.
— from The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

I speak advisedly in calling them a school: they were a group of personal friends, united in sympathy by similar tastes and principles; and they had in common certain definite, coherent, and conscious aims.
— from The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

They denied that God governs the world, or in the least condescends to interfere with creatures below; they denied the immortality of the soul, and the existence of angels; they maintained that happiness consisted in pleasure; but some of them placed this pleasure in the tranquillity and joy of the mind, arising from the practice of moral virtue, and which is thought by some to have been the true principle of [pg 245] Epicurus: others understood him in the gross sense, and placed all their happiness in corporeal pleasure.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward