"felisa" hidden in books

For example Life is snow and

For example: “Life is snow, and the summer advanceth; only a small portion remaineth: art thou still slothful?”
— from Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

for electric lighting is sold at

Energy for electric lighting is sold at the rate of about ten cents per kilowatt hour.
— from General Science by Bertha May Clark

fossils exquisite leaves in stone and

The other a naturalist's shop, in which, besides fossils, exquisite leaves in stone and petrified tree-fragments, I found the commencement of a zoological collection—the lynx with its comfortable snow-coat on, and the grey mountain wolf not less cozily dressed; squirrels, black and grey, "the creatures that sit in the shade of their tails," and the "friends of Hiawatha" with various birds—the sage hen and the prairie chicken, the magpie (very like the English bird), and the "lark,"—a very inadequate substitute indeed for the bird that "at Heaven's gate sings," that has been sanctified to all time by Shelley, and the idol of the poets of the Old World—and heads of large game, horned and antlered, and the skin of a "lion.
— from Sinners and Saints A Tour Across the States and Round Them, with Three Months Among the Mormons by Phil Robinson

far end lost in shadow and

There was a bench at the far end, lost in shadow, and she was about to seat herself there when she saw that it was already occupied.
— from Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

For every lie is sin and

For every lie is sin and ill: and not God's will.
— from The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Rolle, Richard, of Hampole

from every land it seems as

To us, who sometimes see the vessels lying in a crowded port, and hear how they bring argosies from every land, it seems as if every part of the ocean must be covered with sails driving before the wind from whatever quarter it may blow.
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant

friendly even lent its shades Anear

"Two daring youths, from hamlet nigh, Through motives curious, went When friendly even lent its shades, Anear the strangers' tent.
— from Carols of Canada, Etc., Etc. by E. S. (Elizabeth Susan) MacLeod

Friday Evening last I succeeded after

3 TO Martin Folkes , Esq; P. R. S. SIR , THE Society having heard from some of their Correspondents in Germany , that what they call a Vegetable Quintessence had been fired by Electricity, I take this Opportunity to acquaint you, that on Friday Evening last I succeeded, after having been disappointed in many Attempts, in setting Spirits of Wine on Fire by that Power.
— from Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity In One Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President, and Two to the Royal Society by Watson, William, Sir

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