The first question as to the nature of the country, he answers by giving a very intelligent account of the topography and climate of the country, the soil in the different parts, and of what the produce of the different sections consists.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

"Mr Adams hath often told me, that chastity is as great a virtue in a man as in a woman.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

There were neat fences at the sides of the road, painted a dainty blue color, and beyond them were fields of grain and vegetables in abundance.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The light ticking of a French clock on the mantel, supported by a young shepherdess of bronze complexion and great symmetry of limb, was the only sound that disturbed the Christmas-like peace of the apartment,—a peace which held the odors of evergreens, new toys, cedar boxes, glue, and varnish in a harmonious combination that passed all understanding.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

They loudly exclaimed against the last instance of his friendship for Fathom, as a piece of wrong-headed extravagance, which neither his fortune could afford nor his conscience excuse; and alleged that such specimens of generosity are vicious in any man, let his finances be never so opulent, if he has any relations of his own who need his assistance; but altogether scandalous, not to say unjust, in a person who depends for his own support on the favour of his friends.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The ground about Vicksburg is admirable for defence.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Teresa lifted the flower-pots one by one and placed them behind the delicate tracery of the oak screen, so that the pots themselves were hidden and the carved openings appeared to give a vista into a sweet spring garden.
— from Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The gate when open gives a vista into a somewhat vast court-yard, on the right of which are the stables, on the left the kitchen and offices.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

The Rev. Dr. Townsend, of Boston University, has given a very interesting and intelligent relation of the connections that exist between medicine and the Old Testament, in the light of nineteenth-century science.
— from History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by P. C. (Peter Charles) Remondino

Rev. Mr. Wood, in a note to White's Natural History of Selborne , gives a very interesting account of a tame turtle which he allowed to crawl about his study.
— from Harper's Young People, December 2, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The boulevards were in an agitated state, the news of the crime had spread from cafe to cafe, and everybody was anxious to see the late edition which one paper had published giving a very incorrect account of the affair, full of the most extraordinary details.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2 by Émile Zola

At the hearing the next morning, where, much frightened, they gave a very incoherent account of their adventures, the judge fined them each fifteen dollars and costs, and as they were unable to pay the fine, they were ordered sent to the city prison.
— from A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams

Muriel was far too exhausted to give a very intelligible account of their adventures; and while yet Kate was fussing around, dabbing her feet with eau de cologne, and rubbing her legs, she suddenly fell off to sleep.
— from Burning Sands by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

"I think we shall get a verdict," I agreed; "but I fancy we shall never get another tenant.
— from The Uninhabited House by Riddell, J. H., Mrs.

In printing an exposure of five seconds in diffused light gives an image perfectly visible, and a grayish black tone; ten seconds gives a vigorous image almost of a black color; in from fifteen to twenty seconds the image is very strong, with the color of an engraving.
— from Photographic Reproduction Processes by Peter C. Duchochois

But failing to get a very intelligent account of the expected performance from the negro woman next me, I moved to the side of the altar and took a chair next a girl of perhaps twenty years old, whose complexion and features gave evidence that she was white.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner