You have never felt the hearts of all hardened against you; have never heard the jeer or curse from every lip; nor endured the insult and the blow from every hand.
— from Jack Sheppard: A Romance, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Harrison Ainsworth
The feathery needles from each little nucleus extend themselves in every direction as far as they will, and combining by gentle contacts with others floating near them, form large and fleecy flakes, involving the nicest complications of structure, and filling the air with a kind of beauty in which the expression of softness and gracefulness is combined with that of mathematical symmetry and precision.
— from Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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