This is particularly the case in his first volume ( Poesías , 1907), in which a lofty inspiration, a noble attitude of mind, a rich and racy vocabulary, a keen insight into the spirit of places, and above all the overflowing vitality of a strong man in the force of ripeness, contend against the still awkward gait of the Basque and a certain rebelliousness of rhyme.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

But Bayle would not have spoken of Him to the Epicureans who were rich people, fond of rest, cultivating all the social virtues, and above all friendship, fleeing the embarrassment and danger of public
— from Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

Below Arley, a place of renown for its scenery, the Severn may be said to abandon definitely all semblance of a mountain river, to cease from intermittent fretting on rocky channels, and to sober down for good—a procedure due in part no doubt to certain weirs below—into a fairly fast but smooth, deep, and navigable stream.
— from The Rivers and Streams of England by A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley

The Polysiphonia are Algæ, seen in tufts from ten to twelve inches long, of usually much branched jointed filaments, on rocks, corallines, and the smaller Algæ at low water mark.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

The throat and chest are snow white, the under parts white with a flush of rose colour at the sides.
— from Birds useful and birds harmful by Ottó Herman

First, the labourer, who is ready to turn his hand to anything; to become a trapper, fisherman, or rough carpenter at the shortest notice.
— from Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

“My room,” she went on as if speaking to herself, “looks out upon a field of red clover at the side, and at the back is a clump of forest.
— from Johnny Longbow by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

The hardship of the case, seemed to be greatly aggravated in his eyes, as he contrasted it with the better fortune of Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family, the former of whom, as he reminded us, caught “any quantity of turtles” on the beach of his island, with no other trouble than that of turning them over upon their backs; while the latter, having surprised an enormous fellow taking an afternoon nap on the surface of the water, treacherously harpooned him in his sleep, and then, steering him as easily as one would drive a well-broken nag, compelled him to tow themselves and their pinnace ashore.
— from The Island Home by Richard Archer