In the inferior races and lower animals this obscure metamorphosis is still more apparent.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
Among his numerous works are: “Italian Journeys,” “Poets and Poetry of the West,” “Poems,” “A Day’s Pleasure,” “A Little Girl Among the Old Masters,” “Indian Summer,” “Modern Italian Poets,” “The Shadow of a Dream,” “A Little Swiss Sojourn,” “My Year in a Log Cabin,” “My Literary Passions,” “Impressions and Experiences,” “A Previous Engagement,” “Certain Delightful English Towns,” “Through the Eye [Pg 56] of the Needle,” “Fennel and Rue,” “Imaginary Interviews,” “The Seen and Unseen in Stratford-on-Avon,” “Years of My Youth,” “A Modern Instance,” “The Lady of the Aristook,” “The Rise of Silas Lapham.”
— from Through the Year with Famous Authors by Mabel Patterson
"It has a most picturesque effect also to meet a train of muleteers in some mountain-pass.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832 by Various
A little mist was also crawling on the water here and there; and having slept with a watch-coat and tarpaulin over me, I shook myself up, without an ache, and like a good bee at the gate of the hive, was brisk for making honey.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
One of these was the teaching of Mahomet forbidding animal representation in design—a rule which in later work has been relaxed; another was the introduction of mathematics into Persia by the Saracens, which led to the adoption of geometrical patterns in design; and a third, the development of "Caligraphy" into a fine art, which has resulted in the introduction of a text, or motto, into so many of the Persian designs of decorative work.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield
“Because you are tired of me, I suppose, Mrs. Prue?”
— from Prue and I by George William Curtis
But if a man will be a younger son, why he must take what the elder leaves, and be as thankful to God as he can;” and, thinking of myself, I shrugged my shoulders and laughed.
— from The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
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