In some ways the ideal Gothic church attained a similar perfection, because there too the structure remained lucid and predominant, while it was enriched by many necessary appointments—altars, stalls, screens, chantries—which, while really the raison d'être of the whole edifice, æsthetically regarded, served for its ornaments.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

When I was a child, I well remember a somewhat similar circumstance that befell me; whether it was a reality or a dream, I never could entirely settle.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Everybody in the house, from the lowest to the highest, showed me such a bright face of welcome, and spoke so cheerily, and was so happy to do anything for me, that I suppose there never was such a fortunate little creature in the world.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The old Professor had such slops as suggested a sickening second childhood.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

There are sixteen scenes containing specimens of Indian big game, birds, and reptiles, with, of course, natural surroundings."
— from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force by Frederick Courteney Selous

Previously to this period I had been living alternately at Bath and Sans Souci Cottage, in Wiltshire.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

Niven did, and Appleby swung his cap off when a hoarse and somewhat spiritless cheer went up.
— from In the Misty Seas: A Story of the Sealers of Behring Strait by Harold Bindloss

Liddell and Scott say ' curved on each side , like the moon in its third quarter, gibbous ;' but as κύρτος by itself, is simply 'curved or arched,' and each side of the moon is carved as much when it is crescent as when gibbous, we have rendered the term 'crescent-shaped,' being influenced by the fact that the Tyropœon valley and that from Herod's gate would really give a crescent shape to the two eastern hills which in his day were one.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

But with a smile and a sigh, she clasped his neck and embraced him, Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
— from Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This habit of fear explains the many elaborate efforts undertaken to establish the theory that primitive races practised a stricter sexual code than the facts prove.
— from The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

Rosie said again, but with a smile so cheerful that Happie was satisfied.
— from Six Girls and Bob: A Story of Patty-Pans and Green Fields by Marion Ames Taggart