Should the object be a red one, the yellow, green, and blue rays, all, in fact, except the red rays, are absorbed by the object, while the red is allowed to escape.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Let him not be obstinate, headstrong, peevish, wilful, self-conceited (as in this malady they are), but give ear to good advice, be ruled and persuaded; and no doubt but such good counsel may prove as preposterous to his soul, as the angel was to Peter, that opened the iron gates, loosed his bands, brought him out of prison, and delivered him from bodily thraldom; they may ease his afflicted mind, relieve his wounded soul, and take him out of the jaws of hell itself.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

No old rabbits are greedy; All black rabbits are greedy. 39.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

They commonly wish not only to understand human action, but also to regulate it; in this view they apply the ideas ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ to the conduct or institutions which they describe; and thus pass, as I should say, from the point of view of Psychology or Sociology to that of Ethics or Politics.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

burn philosophically, and contented himself with saying:— “The charter metamorphosed into flame.” And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called entrain , and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a sort of merry bombardment over their heads.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds—the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveller, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

So the money was handed over to Uncle Gregory, and Bertie received a very large and formal paper, which he never read, but still was proud of, and in his next visit handed it triumphantly to Mr. Clair.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Before the shed great heaps were left Of gathered flowers and billets cleft, And on the trees hung grass and bark Ráma and Lakshmaṇ's path to mark: And heaps of fuel to provide Against the cold stood ready dried.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

To which senor astrologer, after having set up his figure, made answer that the bitch would be in pup, and would drop three pups, one green, another bright red, and the third parti-coloured, provided she conceived between eleven and twelve either of the day or night, and on a Monday or Saturday; but as things turned out, two days after this the bitch died of a surfeit, and senor planet-ruler had the credit all over the place of being a most profound astrologer, as most of these planet-rulers have."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

'I'll get a bit roomy, an' tak in washin'. 'Weel, I'll tell ye what I wad like ye to do.
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

Here he stored grain and built ramparts and trenches, and when by the end of May the Sepoys were in revolt, he was prepared to fight to the last.
— from The Story of the Highland Regiments by Frederick Watson

She came to Ikpe, a large mud town, very dirty and smelly, where all sorts of tribes mingled, and found that the people wore little or no clothes, that the [Pg 166] girls and boys ran about naked, and that all, old and young, seemed more wicked and shameless than any natives she had seen.
— from The White Queen of Okoyong: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism and Faith by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone

Kaundinya (a sage).—A Brāhmanical gōtra adopted by Rāzus and Bhatrāzus.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

If a little of the sour milk is saved until last, the soda dissolved in that, and then added to the cake batter, it will give a brick red appearance.
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas

He was a man of about forty, who had been born at Mellish Park, and had pottered about the stables from his babyhood, doing odd jobs for the grooms, and being reckoned, although a little "fond" upon common matters, a very acute judge of horse-flesh.
— from Aurora Floyd, Vol. 1 Fifth Edition by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Sometimes, when he had been out here ready to start mustering at dawn, he had watched the first glow of coming daylight on the summit of Ruapehu, and again, at the end of a long summer day when the smoke of many bush-fires was in the air, he had watched for an hour or more the delicate lilacs, the greens and blues, reds and golds, the shadows deepening beneath the buttresses, and the slow melting of the last warm glow into the cold steely colour of night.
— from The Tale of a Trooper by Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes) Mackenzie

And he thought how he had nearly kissed her once, in the scented spring dusk, at her father’s gate, and been repelled at the last moment by the thought of something that he could not see….
— from Australian Writers by Desmond Byrne

Devil—for Roland persisted in giving the dog this name—would not come away from the dwarf, prostrate on the ground, although both Roland and the trainer called to him repeatedly.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach