We're constantly looking at security systems and how to get around them; we can't help it.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Even when the last ray of hope for victory seems to have disappeared, the call of an honored war chief, like a suggestive spark, may fire the hosts to self-sacrifice and heroism.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Paradise Lost, books 1-2, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, Lycidas, and selected Sonnets,--all in Standard English Classics; same poems, more or less complete, in various other series; Areopagitica and Treatise on Education, selections, in Manly's English Prose, or Areopagitica in Arber's English Reprints, Clarendon Press Series, Morley's Universal Library, etc.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I walked on the point and observed rose bushes different Species of pine, a Spcies of ash, alder, a Species of wild Crab Loral and Several Species of under Broth Common to this lower part of the Columbia river-
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"Father," she said, in a tone of gentle gravity, which sometimes came like a sadder, slower cadence across her playfulness, "we shall take the furze bush into the garden; it'll come into the corner, and just against it I'll put snowdrops and crocuses, 'cause Aaron says they won't die out, but'll always get more and more.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

How the Poor Man continues living, and so seldom starves, by miracle!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Undulating grass plains, a wide river winding through the country like a silver serpent, clumps of tropical trees, and a distant vision of fantastic peaks, all flushed with splendid colours under the fierce light of the sunset.
— from Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage by Fergus Hume

As the five advanced crabs large and small swarmed sideways across their path to seek shelter amongst the rocks; fish in shoals darted from the unwonted sight of the diving-dresses, although a few, bolder or more stupid than the rest, swam quite close to the submarine pedestrians.
— from The Rival Submarines by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Upon the Persian carpet lay a small spray of lilies of the valley, fallen from Betty's bouquet.
— from Brothers: The True History of a Fight Against Odds by Horace Annesley Vachell

The day before there had been a fall of snow, but the frost set in and the afternoon ended in a green sunset with the earth crisp and crackling like a shark's skin.
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

In the passage without a quick footstep there stirr'd; At the door knock'd the negress, and thrust in her head, "The Duke de Luvois had just enter'd," she said, "And insisted"— "The Duke!" cried Lucile (as she spoke, The Duke's step, approaching, a light echo woke).
— from Lucile by Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of

Over her stood a youngish but severe-appearing man in a white linen coat like a ship's steward, trying to get her up.
— from The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Daskam Bacon