The great range of the Wahsatch Mountains opens out here, and forms a convenient site for a city at their feet; and as we approached we saw that distinctive feature, the dome of the Tabernacle.
— from Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

The songster has not yet thrown off his seasonal cold; the sound might sometimes proceed from a crow suffering from a catarrh.
— from Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

In a word, he had piety for a christian, sense for a counsellor, carriage for a martyr, and soul for a king.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

One always feels a certain sympathy for a church in which so many people are ever praying; and I have never yet been into this church without being able to count them by scores.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

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— from Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller For Grades One to Eight by Ernest J. (Ernest James) Ashbaugh

So shall each murmuring thought be gone; And grief and fear and care shall fly, As clouds before the mid-day sun.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston