He made random reference to the different constitution of races, enabling one to offer more resistance to certain [pg 216] maladies than another.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

A cousin of the late Don José Salvatierra represented the family, and pervaded the meal with a mild flavour of stale cigaritos and dignified criticism of remote events.
— from Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte

Such expressions as "the soul's awareness of God," "the dawning consciousness of religion," etc., take the place of the earlier and more direct animistic interpretation.
— from Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen

It surpassed all the other Dunraven Christmases on record; everybody said so.
— from Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

We are approaching the moment when religious physics became transformed into metaphysics; the period when the gods retreated from phenomenon to phenomenon, and took refuge ultimately in the supersensible; the period when heaven and earth first became distinct and separate; although, to be quite accurate, the distinguishing characteristic of religion even at the present day is an incoherent mixture of physics and metaphysics, of anthropomorphic or sociomorphic theories in regard to nature and to the supernatural.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

"Pardon me, lord count," continued Gisbrecht, stammering; "I meant to say the young departed countess—"' "O Rosowina!" exclaimed the count, with an involuntary sigh.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

There is something in his mighty productions that touches the deepest chords of religious emotion, regardless of creed or communion.
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

Apples in custard Beef, round of, boiled Roast sirloin of Calf's head, boiled Charlotte aux pommes Cod's head and shoulders Crab, dressed Duck, wild Ducks, couple of, roast Eggs, poached, and spinach Fowl, boiled with cauliflower Roast, with watercresses Fruits, centre dish of various Goose, roast Grouse Ham, cold glazed Hare, roast Jelly, two colours of Lobsters, dressed Mackerel, boiled Mutton cutlets and mashed potatoes Haunch of roast Saddle of roast Mutton, shoulder of roast Oysters, scalloped Partridge Pheasant Pie, raised Pig, sucking, roast or baked Pigeon Plum-pudding, Christmas, in mould Rabbit, boiled Or fowl, curried Raspberry cream Rissoles Salmon, boiled Snipe Soles, dish of filleted Spinach and poached eggs Strawberries, au naturel, in ornamental flowe
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton