All three forms of religion go on together; the religion of magic, that of stately public sacrifices and ceremonials, and that of intellectual effort and pious meditation and prayer.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies

As I stand watching these birds a flock of rooks goes over, they have left the nesting trees, and fly together again.
— from Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies

Pastures and fields of ripening grain on the most distant slopes of Vermont gave the nearest token of life.
— from The Wild Olive: A Novel by Basil King

From the Tower to St. Paul's there was one mass of fire and devastation, the heat striking in your eyes, and the air being filled with burning sparkles, and with the cries of people flying, or removing goods on the river.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 by Various

"But I love you with all my heart," she said earnestly, tenderly, her whole soul—young, ardent, full of romance, going out to him with all the strength of its purity and passion.
— from The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Though his ears could scarce believe it on that Saturday night, when there was not within earshot any function or reception going on, there came feet up those splendid, shallow steps—feet which seemed to halt, and even vacillate beneath a swaying body.
— from Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming

Two steamers lay not far off, rolling gently on the glittering swell, and several lighters were moored against the wharf.
— from Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss

Another of the Apologie’s references to Aristotle: “which reason of his, as all his, is most full of reason,” gives one to think.
— from Baconian Essays by Smithson, E. W. (Edward Walter), active 19th century