5 Aquellas crisis y horribles erupciones del manso carácter de la sobrina eran tan fuertes como raras, y se pasaban a veces cinco o seis años sin que D. Inocencio viera a Remedios convertirse en una furia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

But little weight can be attached to their evidence; for the statement of Diodorus is vague and rhetorical, and the reasons which Macrobius, one of the fathers of solar mythology, assigns for the identification are exceedingly slight.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

[Pg 191] they rise; its head makes way for it; its abdomen, as a rudder, steers it; and by alternately increasing and diminishing in volume, and rising and falling, enables it to win an easy way through the fluctuations of the atmospheric sea.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Gambling with long chances, Lee had succeeded in removing some 150,000 invading troops from deep in Virginia and reversing the threat of impending attack upon the opposing capital.
— from Manassas (Bull Run) National Battlefield Park, Virginia by Francis Wilshin

And darkness came, and strange sounds like far-off voices, and a murmur as of waters deepening in volume and rushing upon her.
— from Flames by Robert Hichens

The eclipse is partial if the Moon covers only a portion of the Sun; total if she covers it entirely; annular, if the solar disk is visible all round the lunar disk, as appears when the Moon, in her elliptical orbit, is beyond medium distance, toward the apogee.
— from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion

He spoke of the neglected state of the country, and its amazing natural fertility; and, for the benefit of all, called upon the landlords and landholders to use their interest and develop its vast agricultural resources.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

January 1855.—During these three days I visited a ruined musjid and a cemetery, which, though much resembling the one at Rhut in every respect, was said to be of more recent origin, and built by Mohammedans.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

Above all, it is not to be supposed that any hard and fast line between the three existed in the Roman's mind; but for the purposes of analysis the distinction is valuable and represents a historical reality.
— from The Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey

However we may blame the German High Command, we cannot refuse to acknowledge the really great qualities of their general Army: its extraordinary courage and devotion, its versatility and resource.
— from Never Again! A Protest and a Warning Addressed to the Peoples of Europe by Edward Carpenter

The mind is set free from influences that narrowed its range and dimmed its vision, and refined to a keener sensibility, a juster perception, a higher power of appreciation, by far, than it had before.
— from Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner

At a loss what answer to make to this very unsympathetic view of my conduct, I quietly returned to my duties, which, grew daily in variety and responsibility.
— from The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens