Lieutenant Maury considers, 'that certain electrical conditions are necessary to a shower of dust as well as to a thunder-storm;' and that, in the periodical intervals, we may get a clue to the rate of motion of the upper aerial currents, which appear to be 'remarkable for their general regularity, their general direction, and sharpness of limits.'
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 by Various

The town is not particularly interesting, but the cathedral is beautiful and in wonderful preservation—the columns are very grand—every capital exquisitely carved and no two alike.
— from Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary King Waddington

That love would not be worth the telling that considered extraneous circumstances, and not the object itself."
— from What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson

No one could ever count anywhere near that many, and yet everybody who is concerned with electricity wants to be able to measure currents in amperes.
— from Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

What elevates men is this steadfast and persevering effort, and a series of such collective efforts carries a nation to a high place.
— from Peaceless Europe by Francesco Saverio Nitti

Answering her next day he told her: "I wanted it much, for I had a frightful cold (English colds are nothing to those of this country) and was very miserable. . . .
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster