If we suppose him to be making love, we cannot look upon him as very deeply enamored, but rather as highly delighted with his spouse, and overflowing with rapturous admiration.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The little incident was soon quite out of the girl’s mind, and only recurred as she touched the belt with her fingers or felt its dangling ends beat regularly against her side as Mauchacho galloped across the range.
— from The Brand: A Tale of the Flathead Reservation by Therese Broderick

Both separately and cooperatively, they labored zealously to increase church attendance, revive family devotions, encourage Bible reading and hymn singing, and minimize the many worldly and doubtful amusements that, then as now, caused many Christians to fall.
— from Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark by J. C. (Jens Christian) Aaberg

And in my dreams I stood alone Upon a shelf of weedy stone, And saw before my shrinking eyes The dark, enormous breakers rise, And hover and fall with deafening thunder Of thwarted foam that echoed under The ledge, through many a cavern drear, With hollow sounds of wintry fear.
— from Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics by C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis

A half mile away, outlined sombrely against the dusky evening blue, rose a huddle of dingy yellow walls.
— from The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives