Thus, if he encloses a portion of gas in a cylinder and drives a piston down against it, he is virtually aiding cohesion by forcing the molecules closer together, so that the hold of cohesion, acting through a less distance, is stronger.
— from A History of Science — Volume 5 by Edward Huntington Williams

Again, he continually assumes that animals low down in the scale of life cannot know their own business because they show no sign of knowing ours.
— from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler

I was a simple student of our high Philosophy for many lives on earth in various countries, and then at last developed in myself a desire for action.
— from Letters That Have Helped Me by Julia Wharton Lewis Campbell Ver Planck Keightley

Some years back none of our artists realized more laboriously, nor obtained more substantial color and texture; a large drawing in the possession of B. G. Windus, Esq., of Tottenham, is of great value as an example of his manner at the period; a manner not only careful, but earnest, and free from any kind of affectation.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

When the tariff was one of the issues—during the first Cleveland, the Harrison, and the second Cleveland campaigns and to a lesser degree in 1896 and 1900,—Senator Frye was regarded as one of the foremost orators and stump speakers on the tariff question.
— from Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois by Shelby M. (Shelby Moore) Cullom

If all that is so, if godliness is, not singing psalms, not praying, not saying 'How sweet it is to feel the [366] love of God,' still less saying 'I accept the principles of Christianity as they are laid down in the Bible'; but carrying out beliefs and emotions in deeds, then the true aim which we should have continually before us as Christians is plain enough.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

Through the midst of the dingle under shadows, yet with her breast bared to those amber shafts of sunshine that fell upon it, came Meavy, with many a curl and turn and leisurely dawdling in deep pool.
— from The Virgin in Judgment by Eden Phillpotts

In other respects the system of police appears to be pretty good, and considering the mixed and heterogenous population, with many bad characters about, there are less disturbances in Buenos Ayres than I expected, though, as a matter of course, many complaints are made as to the deficiency of police regulations.
— from Brazil and the River Plate in 1868 by William Hadfield

It was a perfect day, the sky cloudless and the air like diamonds in its sparkling clearness.
— from Adventures in Swaziland: The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil

We passed under the north wall of the Cathedral, and through a little door into a garden, where lime trees tempered the glare of the sun, and the town, with its crowd and noise, seemed to be in a moment left behind.
— from The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman