As it advanced, the great tail stirred up a cloud of reddish dust, and left behind it a round deep depression in a surface already crisscrossed with a multitude of similar depressions.
— from The Red Hell of Jupiter by Paul Ernst

It proved to be a collection of ramshackle dwellings, as little habitable as English cowhouses; of stores, where thieving Greeks sold groceries to the soldiers; and of taverns, whose vines hung heavily clustered over porch and window.
— from Tell England A Study in a Generation by Ernest Raymond

But far greater is the tragedy when the illusive charm of romance departs, and love and marriage are reduced to the commonplace.
— from A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The upper isothermal acb represents the solubility relations when the formation of a racemic compound is excluded, as, e.g. in the case of rubidium d - and l -tartrates above the transition point (p. 265 ).
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

Hence every organic being is the permanent expression for a conflict of reciprocally destroying and limiting actions of nature.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

It is like enough that these extravagant phrases expressed an exultation which was sufficiently genuine and sincere, for while he was absent the city of Rome desired and longed for its Pope, although when present it might do everything in its power to shake off his yoke.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

It was the peculiarity of the Roman mind to be capable of receiving deep and lasting impressions from other nations with whom it came in contact, without sacrifice of the strong individuality of its own character.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar