A more subdued light, on mingling with the moisture of the eye, produces a red colour.
— from Timaeus by Plato

While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

This sect contributed powerfully to the establishment of a democracy and a republic, and from the earliest settlement of the emigrants politics and religion contracted an alliance which has never been dissolved.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He was evidently poor, and rather cunning.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

{109} Angling This most delightful of outdoor pastimes requires for its enjoyment no elaborate or expensive paraphernalia: a rod cut on the spot, a cork float, an ordinary hook baited with angleworm, grasshopper, grub, may-fly, or any of a dozen other handy lures, will answer for most occasions.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Before Catherine went home she shared in the evening prayer at Redan Cottage, and heard the colonel's voice falter as he offered up one special petition for the 'welfare, spiritual and temporal, of all relatives and friends.'
— from Niece Catherine by Mary Hampden

Its edge presents a reddish calyx, like the rest of the bark, the festooned throat of which presents eight dentations. Fig.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

"Hoc ipsum gravissime monuerant primos Ecclesiæ discipulos Petrus et Jacobus; repetitque Paulus ad Titum scribens, sive ut Christianos, insectantium injuriis undique obnoxios, in patientia contineret, sive ut vulgi opinionem deleret, qua discipuli Jesu Christi, omnes ferme Galilæi, sententiam Judæ Gaulonitæ sequi, et principum authoritati repugnare censebantur .
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

I have directed my parish priests to form for this purpose in every parish a relief committee.
— from The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

Mrs. Lake had written on hers, “Sister of Mr. George Barnes, Woods and Forests Dept.,” and Major Sowerby had put in parenthesis under his son's name, “Ellison prizeman at Routilla College, Eastbourne.”
— from The Lighter Side of English Life by Frank Frankfort Moore

With a tremendous effort Potts again recovered command of himself.
— from Cord and Creese by James De Mille

In this case the man and woman seem to have exchanged places as regards character, the wife being decidedly the master, and he, poor man, looked as if he hardly dared call his soul his own.
— from Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith

12mo.--This is by far the fullest, most minute, and, we believe, the most accurate picture of the Dutch national character, as exhibited in their manners, customs, cities, villages, houses, gardens, canals, domestic economy, pursuits, amusements, religion, &c. 480.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

The following note on his brother's character was written by Charles Darwin at about the same time that the sketch of his father was added to the 'Recollections.':— "My brother Erasmus possessed a remarkably clear mind with extensive and diversified tastes and knowledge in literature, art, and even in science.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin