Necessarily called into existence, in the first place, by the fostering rays of a personal sentiment, a true work of art must reach its perfect form in the full and impersonal light of reason.
— from Charles Gounod Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Charles Gounod

The breakfast was waiting; a Creole one, composed of soup made of the water in which beef-bones, and especially beef knee-caps, had been boiled, flavored with onions fried in lard; of vaca frita —fried cow—little pieces of beef of all shapes, fried also in lard; of ropa vieja —old clothes—slices of cold meat warmed up with sauce; of aporeado —beef torn into shreds of an inch and a half long and stewed with a little tomato, green peppers, garlic, and onions, (this dish looks very like boiled twine;) of picadillo —meat minced as fine as possible and scrambled in eggs, chopped onions and peppers; of rice cooked with little pieces of fat pork and colored with saffron; of very nice pork-chops, the best meat in Cuba, and very different and far superior to Northern pork; of boiled yucca , and ripe plantains, very delicious to the taste, resembling in flavor a well-made apple charlotte.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Rivalry in Prayer Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, has a wide-awake Presbyterian elder of Scotch character, who, although a persistent advocate of the Westminster Confession, occasionally for convenience sake—and from an innate love of religious intercourse—attends the meetings of his Methodist brethren.
— from Scotch Wit and Humor by W. H. (Walter Henry) Howe

Often the voices of the three would be intermingled in the combined discharge of offensive similitudes, each vying in the melée encounter for ascendancy in loudness of report, and precision in the diabolic aim of their denunciations.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

Suppose you attend to the suggestions which the moon makes for one month, commonly in vain, will it not be very different from anything in literature or religion?
— from Excursions by Henry David Thoreau

Both the French and Italian lines of railway have been much advanced since the period of our journey.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

No one realizes better than I the fact that as students have increased in each order, each has followed an independent line of research, absolutely without regard to the work done elsewhere.
— from Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John Bernhard Smith

Then follows an imposing list of references, Reverends, Esquires, and Honorables.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Then follow directions to Colonel Fletcher (commanding the engineers) to make his plans for an immense line of redoubts covering the Lisbon peninsula from sea to sea.
— from Wellington's Army, 1809-1814 by Charles Oman