The soldiers’ faces were more and more clearly visible.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There was a painful expression of anxiety in her face which made me fear that her mind, on first recovering itself, was not at ease.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

And he was the son of Mars: for we may grant this much to the common report existing among men, especially as it is not merely ancient, but one also which has been wisely maintained by our ancestors, in order that those who have done great service to communities may enjoy the reputation of having received from the Gods, not only their genius, but their very birth.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But if we realise that in these facts we may be able to read the native’s attitude towards wealth and value, their importance for the [ 176 ] main theme becomes obvious.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

6. The fortification was made so strong that it could not be taken.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

There is hardly any thing, even to pecuniary dishonesty, for which men will not feel themselves almost absolved, if those whose duty it was to resist and remonstrate have failed to do it, still more if they have given a formal assent.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

For we mark How sounds do into one place penetrate, Into another flavours of all juice, And savour of smell into a third.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

A rational poet's vision would have the same moral functions which myth was asked to fulfil, and fulfilled so treacherously; it would employ the same ideal faculties which myth expressed in a confused and hasty fashion.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

All this was borne by Miss Jessie and her father with more than placidity—with absolute tenderness.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

We may be wise or foolish, we may be learned or ignorant, we may be rich or poor, we may be high or low, we may be barbarian or civilised, but we are all sinners.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

For we may picture the field to ourselves as consisting of lines of force.
— from Sidelights on Relativity by Albert Einstein

"Elvira even, who certainly is not at all like an angel, has to break her friendship with me every few weeks.
— from Maezli: A Story of the Swiss Valleys by Johanna Spyri

Here in Edinburgh I was within four miles of the sea, yet the business of approaching random fishermen with my hat in the one hand and a knife in the other, appeared so desperate, that I saw nothing for it but to retrace my steps over the northern counties, and knock a second time at the doors of Birchell Fenn.
— from St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson

In the West this is quite a problem, for, when many thousands of these animals pass through a forest ( Fig. 134 ), there is often very little young growth left and the future reproduction of the forest is severely retarded.
— from Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison

The gateway to the Aros and the Ibibios, holding the Enyong, and being just a day's journey from what must ever be our base, namely the seaport of the ocean steamers, having waterway all the year round and a good beach front, it is the natural point, I think, at which our up and down river work should converge.
— from Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone

RAVEN GREY FOR WOOL Mordant with 25 per cent Alum for 1/2 hour at boiling heat; then take it out, add to the same liquor 5 per cent copperas, and work it at boiling heat for 1/2 hour.
— from Vegetable Dyes: Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Ethel Mairet

Indeed, had she not, for purposes known best to herself, endeavoured to start a flirtation with me?
— from In White Raiment by William Le Queux

Papetiere and writing-desk were in Mabel's bed-room, but she was in the parlor, practising an instrumental duet with Rosa—a favorite with Miss Dorrance.
— from At Last: A Novel by Marion Harland