The country immediately about it is naturally beautiful and romantic, especially up the Potomac, in the region of the Great Falls; and, though the soil be poor as compared with that of my present home, it is susceptible of easy improvement and embellishment.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

He said, “The present age was not improved in anything so much as in their puppet-shows; which, by throwing out Punch and his wife Joan, and such idle trumpery, were at last brought to be a rational entertainment.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The hot water that cooled the tuyères came into it, some fifty yards up—a tumultuous, almost boiling affluent, and the steam rose up from the water in silent white wisps and streaks, wrapping damply about them, an incessant succession of ghosts coming up from the black and red eddies, a white uprising that made the head swim.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There would however be a radical error in attributing this instantaneous transition of feeling in the philosopher, to any one of those causes which might naturally be supposed to have had an influence.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

This state of affairs can only be rectified by a really efficient education of youth.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

His citizens have no silver or gold of their own, but are ready enough to pay them to their mercenaries.
— from The Republic by Plato

Every winter the liquid and trembling surface of the pond, which was so sensitive to every breath, and reflected every light and shadow, becomes solid to the depth of a foot or a foot and a half, so that it will support the heaviest teams, and perchance the snow covers it to an equal depth, and it is not to be distinguished from any level field.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

I thought it best not to show him, you see, if it could be helped; for he's a-shaking all over, like—Blight's simile is perhaps inspired by the surrounding dishes of sweets—'like Glue Monge.' 'Sharp boy again,' returns Eugene.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

We have mainly referred to it here, however, as an illustration of how entirely St. Bernard's impeachment of the Irish Church and nation was believed at Rome, even after the salutary decrees of the Synod of Kells had been promulgated.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

This has been a republic ever since.
— from Sign of the Green Arrow A Mystery Story by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

At first sight it appeared a confused medley of odds and ends, utterly impossible to bring into any conformity to order, but Albrecht recognized each separate piece of luggage, every detached section of canvas, recalling exactly where it properly belonged during the coming performance.
— from Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish

He is assisted in his government by a resident English adviser, appointed by the viceroy, and really has very little to do.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

Robert's ambition was to be a railroad engineer, and soon after the sugar stealing began, he made an engine of boxes and barrels in the locust grove.
— from The Rainbow Bridge by Frances Margaret Fox

In the bosom of this little vale, upon a slight eminence, two miles from the bay, reposes the Mission—a village of some five hundred inhabitants—having a broad avenue running entirely through it, in a parallel line with the stream.
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

And so there has been a rumpus, eh?
— from In the Roar of the Sea by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

the derrick winch commenced to grunt and rattle, and the men were whisked into mid-air, clutching tightly to their frail, cramped hold, and steadied in their aerial journey by another rope extending to the rowing-boat below.
— from Lightships and Lighthouses by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

"And it's going to be all right," Elmer told himself, as he lay down later in his bunk, watching the two men who were still sitting by the fire, talking about the habits of animals, for Zack having been a guide all his life was brimfull of such lore; "he's got Zack going, and nothing can stop him now.
— from Storm-Bound; or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts by Douglas, Alan, Captain