The big bronze lamp with the green shade, makes the walls, the furniture, the faces, all green, couleur " Nuit d'Ukraine " Occasionally a smouldering log flares up in the dying fire and for a moment casts a red glow over the faces; but this does not spoil the general harmony of light.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The poet-laureate of the Capitol maintains the act, applauds the hero, and mingles with some apprehension and advice, the most lofty hopes of the permanent and rising greatness of the republic.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

If, after having cast a rapid glance over the state of American society in 1650, we turn to the condition of Europe, and more especially to that of the Continent, at the same period, we cannot fail to be struck with astonishment.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality as had marked their several meetings in Derbyshire; and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Their parties abroad were less varied than before; and at home she had a mother and sister whose constant repinings at the dulness of every thing around them, threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance, by a situation of such double danger as a watering place and a camp.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Messrs. Davis, Frye, and Reid go on to say: Military and naval witnesses agree that it would be practically as easy to hold and defe
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

With face of hope turned now on the Legislative Assembly, and now on Austria and Coblentz, and round generally on the Chapter of Chances, an ancient Kingship is reeling and spinning, one knows not whitherward, on the flood of things.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The surrounding mountains are a part of their existence, and borrow from man in turn a reflected glow of traditional interest.
— from The Alps by Conway, William Martin, Sir

George Fox had to learn that it is God's work to enlighten, that there is still to be enjoyed a real guidance of the Holy Spirit, resulting in the solution of difficulties and mysteries, in a clear apprehension of the truth, and a soul-satisfying sense of its power.
— from Three Apostles of Quakerism: Popular Sketches of Fox, Penn and Barclay by Benjamin Rhodes

But to understand this reaction, and, indeed, to make any sound estimate of the present position and prospects of Liberalism, we must cast a rapid glance over the movement of progressive thought during the last generation.
— from Liberalism by L. T. (Leonard Trelawny) Hobhouse

It was a rough gathering on the whole, though there were some men in evening-dress besides Colonel Joe, and of these two sat beside Shere Ali.
— from The Broken Road by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

You needn’t be afraid—I’ve only fetched you a job, and a right good one, too.”
— from The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

This animal White Wolf seemed extremely anxious to present to the Professor, but it was [178] politely declined, by the advice of the interpreter, who explained to us that a return gift of the donkey's weight in sugar and coffee would be expected.
— from Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West by W. E. (William Edward) Webb

As the vital and rudimentary germ of the oak is contained in the acorn; as it is quickened and excited to activity by the external conditions of moisture, light, and heat, and is fully de 170 developed under the fixed and determinative laws of vegetable life--so the germs of the idea of God are present in the human mind as the intuitions of pure reason ( Rational Psychology ); these intuitions are excited to energy by our experiential and historical knowledge of the facts and laws of the universe ( Phenomenology ); and these facts and intuitions are developed into form by the necessary laws of the intellect ( Nomology , or Primordial Logic ).
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

The man disappeared in the darkness and the deluge, and Roosevelt galloped off through a grove of cottonwoods after the diminished herd.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

The Hsia state had a ruling group of Toba, but these Toba had become entirely tibetanized.
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard

has led him to adopt the same course which ruined the brilliant and resolute genius of the great Emperor.
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 2 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat