An exchange of places with such remote beings would too evidently leave each creature the very same that it was before; for after a nominal exchange of places each office would remain filled and no trace of a change would be perceptible.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Love wept and spread his sheeny vans 2 for flight; Yet ere he parted said, "This hour is thine; Thou art the shadow of life, and as the tree Stands in the sun and shadows all beneath, So in the light of great eternity Life eminent creates the shade of death; The shadow passeth when the tree shall fall, But I shall reign for ever over all".
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The babe, also, from being a very ordinary looking child, had become the most exquisite little elfin creature that ever was seen.
— from Tales of Folk and Fairies by Katharine Pyle

"The news makes me feel more than ever like enlisting," continued the boy, after a pause, during which he served out half a dozen newspapers to as many customers.
— from Fighting in Cuban Waters; Or, Under Schley on the Brooklyn by Edward Stratemeyer

A general desire for peace was, of course, the result; and, ere long, Edward caught the infection.
— from The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster by John G. (John George) Edgar

CHAPTER XXVI {X} GEOGRAPHY OF THE PRAIRIES Extent of Prairies — Mountains — Mesas or Table-lands — El Llano Estacado — Cañones — Their Annoyance to the early Caravans — Immense Gullies — Coal Mines and other geological Products — Gypsum — Metallic Minerals — Salines —
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg