A Continental Power that shall be nameless, but whose identity you, as a man of the world, will be able to guess, is moving heaven and earth to get to know what that report contains.
— from The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles by Henry Augustus Hering

This evening, after another long season of prayer respecting the work of God in my hands, and especially also, that it might please the Lord to give me soon what I need for the Building Fund, so that I may be enabled to take active steps in the erection of another Orphan House, came in the course of my reading and meditation James I. This forcibly reminded me of the close of November and the beginning of December in 1845, when, whilst labouring for a season in the Word at Sunderland, this portion also came in the course of my meditation on the whole New Testament.
— from A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 4 by George Müller

It is not often that the señorita of the southwest can lay claim to any more of beauty than glows in midnight hair and eyes.
— from With Hoops of Steel by Florence Finch Kelly

But if they are attacked and made to act more for the public good it may have an effect on rural conditions which are now low."
— from The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J. W. (John William) Robertson Scott

He will realise how every danger gives it more heart, and every triumph more prudence; how it partakes of poison and sorrow and thrives upon them.
— from Thoughts out of Season, Part I David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When I knelt at the altar, the sacred flame of pure devotion glowed in my heart, and elevated my soul to sublimity.
— from A Sicilian Romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe