But all at once, as if undergoing the influence of an unspoken thought, the countenance of the cardinal, till then gloomy, cleared up by degrees, and recovered perfect serenity.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Still from time to time the fleecy veil parted, and timidly disclosed charming glimpses of mighty rivers, mountain defiles, and rolling plains, sear with ripened oats and bathed in the glow of the setting sun.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

For besides instilling a contempt of death, and relieving pain so as to enable men to bear it, we have added the appeasing of grief, than which there is no greater evil to man.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘And before I go, gentlemen,’ said the excited Mr. Pickwick, turning round on the landing, ‘permit me to say, that of all the disgraceful and rascally proceedings—’ ‘Stay, sir, stay,’ interposed Dodson, with great politeness.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

He had at length, from his profound sensual activity, developed a real purposive self.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He had not been received as other Egyptians were: half-educated philosophers—who called themselves Sages and assumed a mystic and pompously solemn demeanor, Astrologers, Rhetoricians, poverty- stricken but witty and venemous satirists, physicians making a display of the learning of their forefathers, fanatical theologians—always ready to avail themselves of other weapons than reason and dogma in their bitter contests over articles of faith, hermits and recluses— as foul in mind as they were dirty in their persons, corn-merchants and usurers with whom it was dangerous to conclude a bargain without witnesses.
— from The Bride of the Nile — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

His father was a clergyman who had risen into a rural dean; but Morrison, who lived at Exeter and understood a frightful deal about religious people, said that, while a very good thing in its way, a rural dean was mere dust beside a cathedral dean.
— from The Human Boy Again by Eden Phillpotts

"It has been drooping since yesterday and will die away," replied Philippus shrugging his shoulders.
— from The Bride of the Nile — Volume 09 by Georg Ebers

Eight miles of cliff-top roads, with magnificent views to the left over sea and coast, and other views equally magnificent inland, to the right, lead in staggering drops and rises past Swyre and Puncknowle down to Burton Bradstock, and thence to the “unheard-of harbour” of West Bay.
— from The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

S. Rev. Inscription giving date of birth and death and recording public services.
— from A Guide to the Exhibition of English Medals by British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals

8 Quhatkyn plesance, deduytis, and recreaciouns Princis suld tak.
— from The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, Knight by Ramon Llull