559 But religion and Freemasonry are not the only means by which Illuminism can be spread.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

She put her face as near that of Marius as possible.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Down in the valley bottom—where now stands the huge straggling town, humming with life and commerce—vast cornfields, waving with plumed maize and the beer-yielding amabele ; and away southward the shining rocky ridge of the Matya’mhlope; while, dappling the plain, far and near, thousands of multi-coloured cattle—the King’s herds—completed the scene of pleasant and pastoral prosperity.
— from The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Bertram Mitford

If I am to be robbit, I would like to be robbit wi’ decent folk; and no think o’ my bonnie clean siller dirling among jads and dicers.
— from The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson by William Ernest Henley

But the foregoing are not the only matters which our stamps teach us.
— from Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley C. (Stanley Currie) Johnson

But the garden had been turned over by zealous searchers under the direction of Master Frank, and no trace of money had been found there.
— from The Mystery of the Downs by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

The earlier and more fundamental psychological factor of humanity is feeling and not thought, or more accurately an incipient rationality, thoroughly suffused with emotional motives; and primitive analogies proceed by a feeling of analogical fitness, and not by an intellectual justification.
— from Fact and Fable in Psychology by Joseph Jastrow

"Her spirit is at rest and free, and no thought of malice or hatred could come from her now.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

ened cups, with the footstalks attached not to one margin, but to the bottom.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

If I am to be robbit, I would like to be robbit wi’ decent folk; and no’ think o’ my bonnie clean siller dirling among jads and dicers.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 15 by Robert Louis Stevenson

The arrival of Lord Westhaven was on her account particularly desirable, as he had promised Emmeline to make a point of assisting her; and on his assurances she knew it was safe to rely, since they were neither made to give himself an air of importance, nor meant to quiet the trouble of present importunity, by holding out the prospect of future advantage never thought of more.
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith