Above the deep-toned quiet of earth, blurred and ragged clouds showed every conceivable tone of umber and grey, from purest pearl-white to darkest depths of indigo.
— from Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver

The young and robust can safely endure cold baths, that would be of no benefit but indeed an injury to those of greater age or of less vigorous conditions of health.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

It still contains a fine and richly coloured screen, evidently copied from the one at Dunster (cp. Timberscombe), but there are no indications of a stairway.
— from Somerset by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Wade

"You are wrong to think that; although the desert may be large, a rascal cannot so easily conceal himself there as you think."
— from The Guide of the Desert by Gustave Aimard

At two-thirty o'clock, a very strong breeze with a rapid current setting eastward, caused a high sea and Boyton had great difficulty in keeping near the boat, his distance from her increasing every moment until he disappeared from view altogether.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton