One complete month this Parlement has spent in mere idle jargoning, and sound and fury; the Timbre Edict not registered, or like to be; the Subvention not yet so much as spoken of.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

A black screen was drawn across his mirror of inner vision, and fancy lay in a darkened sick-room where entered no ray of light.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

They, 17 Truth about Cinemaland (The), 214 Unrecorded Engagement (An), 270 Elias, Frank Home Helps for Non-combatants, 242 Evans, R. Another Scrap of Paper, 242 Farjeon, Miss Eleanor Nursery Rhymes of London Town, 200, 215, 239, 253, 271, 277, 301, 318, 326, 341, 365, 373, 391 Fenn, Clive R. Only Way (The), 402 Foote, G. H. W. Flat Overture (A), 190 Fox-Smith, Miss C. Amused and the Amusers (The), 370 Convalescent (The), 328 Grand Tour (The), 70 Question of the Nude (A), 182 Route March (The), 398 Saint George of England., 261 Speed the Plough: A Country Song, 350 Freeman, W. Archibill, 406 Dirty Night (A), 122 Expert Adviser (The), 167 Garstin, C. Bobbery Pack (The), 231 Canadian Remounts, 109 Fantasy (A), 370 Flying Man (The), 67 Huntin' Weather, 10 Garvey, Miss Ina Blanche's Letters, 116, 340 Gibson, Capt. "Biology at the Front", 376 Gillespie, A. B. "For this Relief——", 5 Glasgow, Mrs. "Dulce et Decorum", 78 "We give our Sons", 306 Graves, C. L. Art in Wartime, 225 Building without Tears, 178 Dress "as usual", 199 Dug-out Dominie (The), 173 Dyspeptic's Dilemma (The), 358 How I dined with the President, 102 In praise of Pussy, 246 Kitchen Rhymes, 420 Latest Solar Myth (The), 296 Luckiest Man (The), 317 Lyra Domestica, 406 More Light from our Leaders, 106 Music in Wartime, 223 Musical Jumbomania, 136 Musings on Milkcans, 382 Occ. Poet's Apologia (The), 278 Railway Rhymes, 125 Rolling Stone (The), 262 Sonnet to a Young Ass, 342 Sorrows of Wilson, 366 Suave Mari Magno, 150 Super-Lutheran Church (The), 389 Teacher Taught (The), 327 Tips of Mother Tipton (The), 334 To Charlotte Brontë, 269 War's Surprises, 376 Graves, C. L., and Lucas, E. V. Battle of Jobey (The), 68 Literary Lispings, 56 My Life, 66 Tercentenary Twitterings, 92 Unruly Britannia, 27 Grove, E. A. From Somewhere in Africa, 220 Way of Thomas (The), 306 Guthrie, Anstey Convenient Conscience (A), 364 Ill-used Author (An), 2 Jillings, 100 Haselden, Percy Golden Valley (The), 104 Herbert, A. P. Adjutant (The), 216 Draft (The), 335 Last Thoughts on Gallipoli, 86 More Eyewash, 280
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 28th, 1916 by Various

It was too dark for him to see anything, for even no ray of light found its way inside to gladden the heart of the prisoner.
— from Heiress of Haddon by W. E. (William Elliott) Doubleday

Till when the struggle and strong agony Had left her, quietly she lay repos’d: Her eyes now resting on Ladurlad’s face, Relapsing now, and now again unclos’d.
— from The Curse of Kehama, Volume 1 (of 2) by Robert Southey

We furnished ourselves with some tents here, for the better accommodating ourselves in the night; and the leader of the caravan procured sixteen carriages, or waggons, of the country, for carrying our water and provisions; and these carriages were our defence every night round our little camp; so that had the Tartars appeared, unless they had been very numerous indeed, they would not have been able to hurt us.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

The Generalissimo has put the most vigorous efforts into the work of this agency, and has organized under it a Kuomintang Training Corps ( Hsün-lien T'uan ) which is providing extensive new resources of leadership to the Party.
— from The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The applause knew no bounds, and I was assured that every note rang out like a bell, and that I played much more finely than before.
— from Frederic Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works, v. 1 (of 2) by Maurycy Karasowski

For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire new recasting of life, in the city of words.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

Every object he contemplates now, is connected with the idea of a righteous God; every subject he can examine now, is fraught with the presence of a righteous God; every new ray of light that meets his eye, reveals to him a righteous God; every sound carries to his ear the name of God, repeated by a thousand echoes.
— from The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

This unusual stretch of blank dead walls, emitting no ray of light, rendered the darkness made by the overhanging storm still more impenetrable.
— from The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 by Joel Tyler Headley