The lofer prefers young meat and as a rule will cut down a yearling colt, or dine on warm veal, eschewing cold flesh and feeding only once from every kill—the lobo being the Lucullus of beasts of prey—but this prowler had either found scanty fare in a long journey across the mountains or else he wished to kill now for pure deviltry and not from hunger.
— from Alcatraz by Max Brand

The young girls burst into exclamations of rapture when they approached the table where, in its snowy purity, lay the bridal dress of white velvet, embroidered with pearls and diamonds.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Dust-veils, of grey or black gauze, are extremely useful in the country, but ought not to be worn in town—nor should any description of white veil ever be seen on a lady’s riding-hat, even though she be exercising in the wilds of Connemara, or in a district as lonely as the deserts of the East.
— from Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.

"I can, by producing the lady's own daughter, of whose very existence, I doubt not, the pious Elder is at this moment in profound ignorance," said Mrs. Garnet.
— from Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Retta Babcock

But it is only the most general facts of a situation that gesture can express; it is incapable of distinguishing or decomposing them, and utterly fails to express the delicate shades of difference of which verbal expression is capable.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

First comes the spontaneous doing of work very encouraging 519 to the author and sufficiently good to warrant a person more experienced in encouraging him to proceed.
— from Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

For here we are dealing only with veritable essences.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

When he approached his bold undertaking with the courage inspired by enthusiasm, Jewish history was a vast field of debris, over which volcanic events had poured out their lava, and the centuries had scattered their dust.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6) Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work by Heinrich Graetz

On the evening of Friday, 7th August, the day on which von Emmich asked General Leman for a truce so that he might bury his dead, a French brigade marched out of Belfort and crossed the frontier.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Edward Parrott

The following table shows the dates on which various events of the annual cycle were observed in each of five different years.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch