He selected from the vast mass of detail with an artist’s touch, drawing pictures of life that glowed and burned with light and color, injecting movement so that his listeners surged along with him on the flood of rough eloquence, enthusiasm, and power.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

"On a framework of intuition you would place the fate of Red Empire?" "Empire, Charles?"
— from Recruit for Andromeda by Stephen Marlowe

But if the friends of rural education elsewhere shall be attracted by this method of solving one of the vexed phases of their problem, I hope that they will describe it as "the Hesperia movement."
— from Chapters in Rural Progress by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield

To the west of Central Avenue lay the tide of social fashion culminating two miles distant in the River Drive, a wide avenue of stately private houses, situated where the Nye made a broad bend to the north, and the new district beyond the river, where the mansion of Carleton Howard, the railroad magnate, stood a pioneer among Elysian fields of real estate enterprise, sanctified by immaculate road surfaces and liberal electric light.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

The most influential of his suffragans, Bishop Fox of Winchester, declared that the mere version was worth ten commentaries, one of the most learned, Fisher of Rochester, entertained Erasmus at his house.
— from History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green

In fits of religious enthusiasm even the secular legislators busied themselves with acts of incontinence in which two unmarried adults of different sex were consenting parties.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

The floods of radiant electric energy that enwrap the sun and planets in orbital lines of omnipotent strength are to these bodies the everlasting fountains from which flow their upholding and evolving power and the conservation of force in their transforming energy.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

When Nogam had left the room, Sturm, remarking the slight frown that knitted Victor's brows, ventured an impertinence couched in a form of respectful enquiry: "Excellency, perhaps you trust that fellow too much, hein?"
— from Red Masquerade Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter by Louis Joseph Vance

Even in the first flash of religious excitement education was not neglected.
— from The Story of Nuremberg by Cecil Headlam