The grey of morning had long dawned through her casements, before Emily closed her eyes in sleep; when wearied nature, at length, yielded her a respite from suffering.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

If either the superintendent or the commandant were to know that Farnum had been guilty of the same offense which is now to deprive you of the five stripes you otherwise, by every count, had earned, you would never be set aside in favor of a man equally guilty but not so square.
— from An Annapolis First Classman by Edward L. (Edward Latimer) Beach

21 "Texas has Boggs drug half-way to the door, before Enright can head 'em off.
— from Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories by Alfred Henry Lewis

Her hair lay in soft fluffy little waves about her head, and her big brown eyes, clear honest eyes, were full of a radiant light.
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

But evolution cannot have evolved itself, nor does there seem to have been an observed case of it.
— from No Refuge but in Truth by Goldwin Smith

" Rhenanus, Brixius, Erasmus, commended his early poems; he was admitted among the brotherhood of those who cultivated lettered lore.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Ath p418 Ag ‘17 550w + Ind 92:56 O 6 ‘17 150w + Lit D 54:2008 Je 30 ‘17 250w “The book, though somewhat elusive in manner, presents an interesting picture of a boy’s life in a large household before European customs had encroached on the native manner.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

It was one of her idiosyncrasies to call people as soon as possible by their Christian names, though no one but her father and brother ever called her Elizabeth.
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

And by evil chance his eye, and mine, fell upon a sword hanging on the farther wall.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

No subject of the British empire conceives himself engaged to vindicate the justice of the Norman claim or conquest, or apprehends that his duty in any manner depends upon that controversy.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

St. Thomas gives expression to it in these sentences: “Perfectio et bonum quae sunt in rebus extra animam, non solum attenduntur secundum aliquid absolute inhaerens rebus, sed etiam secundum ordinem unius rei ad aliam; sicut etiam in ordine partium exercitus, bonum exercitus consistit: huic enim ordini comparat Philosophus
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey