One of these papers was as good as a circus, and nearly as good as a spree—certainly a most wonderful treat for a workingman, who was tired out and stupefied, and had never had any education, and whose work was one dull, sordid grind, day after day, and year after year, with never a sight of a green field nor an hour's entertainment, nor anything but liquor to stimulate his imagination.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

He could captivate them alike by lively fun and excellent nonsense, and by lucid explanations of the wonders of the world about which children love to hear.
— from Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch by Leonard Huxley

His conversation is like an eruption, now a burning lava-stream of glowing inspiration, now sulphurous mockery and scorn, and now, wide-flying, a shower of sharp stones of criticism.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

But there he was in class-meeting, not a mite changed, just as friendly and earnest as ever, not a bit lifted up because he had been called to the highest position in the city."
— from A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda M. Douglas

He will bind me for his prize, Me, the Bride of Dionyse; And my priest, my friend, is taken Even now, and buried lies; In the dark he lies forsaken!
— from The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripides

This is to be effected not alone by legislative enactments, but also by a moral and religious influence.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

So gently does he move her, that Lilian, who is indeed fatigued, and absolutely tired out with her exertions of the evening, never awakes, but lets her heavy, sleepy little head drop over to the other side, down upon Chetwoode's shoulder.
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess