When a fierce and riotous gust of wind had led his thoughts by a natural association to homeless travellers on such a night, Pearson resumed the conversation.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

'T is always with a moral end That I dissert, like grace before a feast: For like an aged aunt, or tiresome friend, A rigid guardian, or a zealous priest, My Muse by exhortation means to mend All people, at all times, and in most places, Which puts my Pegasus to these grave paces.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Now, when the following morn had chas’d away The flying stars, and light restor’d the day, Aeneas call’d the Trojan troops around, And thus bespoke them from a rising ground: “Offspring of heav’n, divine Dardanian race!
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

To a playful question from a retired general of much consequence, of whom we shall have more to say later, Lizaveta Nikolaevna frankly replied that evening that she was engaged.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If a battalion is ordered to drive the enemy from a rising ground, or a bridge, &c., then properly the occupation of any such locality is the real object, the destruction of the enemy's armed force which takes place only the means or secondary matter.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

She sets out not to teach methods of any kind for the gradual drawing near of man to God, but to record and shew forth a Revelation, granted once, of God's actual nearness to the soul, and for this Revelation she herself had been prepared by the "stirring" of her conscience, her love and her understanding, in a word of her faith , even as she was in short time to be left "neither sign nor token," but only the Revelation to hold "in faith.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

White Mason was a quiet, comfortable-looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Messrs. Davis, Frye, and Reid go on to say: Military and naval witnesses agree that it would be practically as easy to hold and defe
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Balder’s funeral pyre on Ringhorn reminds us of Hercules’s death on Mount Œta, the flames and reddish glow of both fires serving to typify the setting sun.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

For all religions grew out of dread or necessity, and came into existence through an error of the reason.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thus fell a renowned Gordon, one whose character at present I am in no capacity to describe: only, I may venture to say, that he was a gentleman of good parts and endowments; a man devoted unto religion and godliness; and a prime supporter of the Presbyterian interest in that part of the country wherein he lived.—The Gordons have all along made no small figure in our Scottish history;—but here was a patriot, a good Christian, a confessor
— 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

Let her pure and exquisite vocalism—the result of such discipline, faith, and rare gifts of heaven, find a response in the American heart unprofaned by absurd excitement, and truly indicative of a genuine and cordial appreciation of the beautiful in art, and the excellent in character.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, July 1850 by Various

[212] C. 2.—Their circuit, where it has been traced, furnishes a rough gauge of the comparative importance of the Roman towns of Britain.
— from Early Britain—Roman Britain by John William Edward Conybeare

It crossed the Neosho and moved on, down the west side of Grand River, to a fording place, Carey's Ford, at which point, it passed over to the east side of the river and camped, a short distance from the ford, at Round Grove, on Cowskin Prairie, Cherokee ground, and the scene of Doubleday's recent encounter with the enemy.
— from The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel

Times we all remember;— Times that flung a ruddy glow O'er the gray December;— Will they never come again, With their song and story?
— from Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War by Margaret Junkin Preston

Joan felt a ripple go over his body and he seemed to heighten, and the touch of his hands thrilled.
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey

On arriving at Asuncion he found a rebellion going on, as not infrequently occurred when a Spanish Governor left his domains.
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham