The sun, obscured by no earth-born cloud, gives out no spark nor ray of light; and in that solemn darkness every voice is strangely hushed.
— from Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings

That they also have a definite economic value is shown by the added desirability we all attach to an attractively landscaped home where trees of various kinds and sizes furnish the motif.
— from A Living from the Land by William Budington Duryee

But in De Rerum Subtilitate , p. 375, he records his grief at her death:—"Itaque cum a luctu dolor et vigilia invadere soleant, ut mihi anno vertente in morte uxoris Luciæ Bandarenæ quanquam institutis philosophiæ munitus essem, repugnante tamen natura, memorque vinculi cōjugalis, suspiriis ac lachrymis et inedia quinque dierum, a periculo me vindicavi." CHAPTER V At this point it may not be inopportune to make a break in the record of Cardan's life and work, and to treat in retrospect of that portion of his time which he spent in the composition of his treatises on Arithmetic and Algebra.
— from Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters

Naumann mentions having kept a Peregrine Falcon for some time in confinement, and tells us that on one occasion it devoured the whole of a fox in the course of two days; three Crows were only sufficient for one day's provision, but, on the other hand, it could, if required, fast for a whole week; this bird would seize six Sparrows at a time, three in each foot, and dispatch them, as it squatted on the ground, by biting one after the other through the head, laying down each victim in succession until all were killed.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

We have three modes of hunting Deer, each varying in some slight degree in the different States and districts.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon

Il mesto Conte a piè quivi discese; E vide in su l'entrata de la grotta Parole assai, che di sua man distese Medoro avea, che parean scritte allotta.
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

Here it must of course be noted that the conception of "specifically dramatic effect" varies in some degree, from age to age, from generation to generation, and even, one may almost say, from theatre to theatre.
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

We have three modes of hunting Deer, each varying in some slight degree, in the different States and Districts.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

The dastardly emperor Valentinian III., suspicious of the independent position of Ætius, recalled the conqueror of Attila from Gaul, and slew him with his own hand (A. D. 454).
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, November 1883 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution