So bright were they that they gave a beautiful radiance even to the sordid brick walls of our Calcutta lanes.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Could it be reasonably expected, that the Southern States would concur in a system, which considered their slaves in some degree as men, when burdens were to be imposed, but refused to consider them in the same light, when advantages were to be conferred?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Appropriating the present chapter to a rapid glance at the progress of events in the month of May, and beginning (as usual) with the Bengal regions, we may conveniently notice two or three arrangements made by the Calcutta government, bearing relation either to the state of the army, or to the condition of civilians affected by the mutiny.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

The Royal Commission “on Rivers Pollution” strongly recommend filters of animal charcoal to be recharged every three to six months, “since they found that myriads of minute worms were developed in the animal charcoal, and passed out with the water when these filters were used for Thames water, and when the charcoal was not renewed at sufficiently short intervals.”
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The male has the head and neck dark grey, mantle and wings brown with broad rufous edges to the secondaries.
— from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis (John Lewis) Bonhote

The limits of a review do not allow of our pursuing this portion of the subject to the extent we might wish; but we know that what we have here asserted is at the bottom of some of the main differences between the Welsh and the English characters; and we do not know of any means whereby these causes can be removed, except through the soothing and permuting influence of time.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848 by Various

"They might have been reduced even to that," said Louis, laughing, "but for the good fortune that befell them in the way of a half-roasted bear."
— from Lost in the Backwoods: A Tale of the Canadian Forest by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

His bright, restless eye, though too sensitive for that of an old campaigner, now took in the crowd with complete assurance, and there was no hint of hesitation discernible.
— from Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

He heard sounds of crying and moaning, and everybody seemed to be rushing excitedly towards the sand.
— from The New Abelard: A Romance, Volume 3 (of 3) by Robert Williams Buchanan

Anticipating, as indeed was natural, that this House of Commons would correspond as ill to the king's wishes as their predecessors, his advisers were preparing schemes more congenial, if they could be rendered effective, to the spirit in which he was to govern.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

There are promises respecting Ephraim which cannot be realized except through the seed of Ephraim dwelling upon the land of America.
— from New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts