The two worlds thus become substantially identical, continuous, and superposable; each can merge insensibly into the other.
— from Winds Of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana

This creepy feeling is sometimes the result of cold, and some extra clothing may remove it.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

How should a hard-working country doctor have money to carry about when his bills were hard to collect, when anyway he never kept books, and when his family, what with feeding and clothing and schooling expenses, cost more every year than he could possibly earn?
— from Harper's Round Table, January 14, 1896 by Various

She felt only that her heart was beating to suffocation, and her face crimson as she exclaimed confusedly: “Mr Cheviott!
— from Hathercourt by Mrs. Molesworth

Crossing this and admiring its wealth and order (I was careful not to walk on the lawns), I opened a little private gate and came on to the road, and from there to Brienz was but a short way along a fine hard surface in a hot morning sun, with the gentle lake on my right hand not five yards away, and with delightful trees upon my left, caressing and sometimes even covering me with their shade.
— from The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc