"This is a wonderful place," said the goblin; "I never expected such a thing.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The beauty of his lines, to me, lies in his art of referring to God in nearly every stanza, yet seldom mentioning the sacred Name.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Hence, the world became to him a constant revelation of God; and he uses the word "God" in no equivocal sense.
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

There are striking situations, even striking phrases, here and there; there is plenty of variety in scene, and more than is sometimes thought in detail; but the motive-and-character-interest is rarely utilised as it might be, and very generally is not even suggested.
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury

Accordingly we set out—a friend and myself—towards Washington, while it was still the long, dreary January of our Northern year, though March in name; nor were we unwilling to clip a little margin off the five months' winter, during which there is nothing genial in New England save the fireside.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Game is not everywhere strictly preserved in that part of Devon, and the result is that the crow is not so abhorred and persecuted a fowl as in many places, especially in the home counties, where the cult of the sacred bird is almost universal.
— from Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

[Pg 45] "John Howard, although you have refused to give any information about yourself, it is evident from your general appearance that you are a young man of good if not exalted station.
— from Upsidonia by Archibald Marshall

To be good, to be grateful, is not enough; since that one ought to be for one's own sake.
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

Timber has been stored at that point ever since the days of Justinian the Great, if not ever since the city was founded.
— from Constantinople, painted by Warwick Goble, described by Alexander Van Millingen by Alexander Van Millingen

Grasping: if no external stimulation is capable of interesting the defective of low type, grasping cannot be stimulated merely by presenting to the child some object or other which might seem to be interesting for color taste or some other quality.
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

When they make dogmatic statements as to how a sound or word is or should be pronounced, their guidance is not equally satisfactory, and the student is earnestly recommended always to test their statements himself.
— from The Sounds of Spoken English: A Manual of Ear Training for English Students (4th edition) by Walter Ripman

They were watching the slow black line winding up the long steps, resting their heavy burden here and there, standing in silent groups at each landing-place; now lost to sight as a piece of broken, overhanging ground intervened, now emerging suddenly nearer; and overhead the great church bell, with its medieval inscription, familiar to the vicar, if to no one else who heard it: “I to the grave do summon all,” kept on its heavy booming monotone, with which no other sound from land or sea, near or distant, intermingled, except the cackle of the geese on some far-away farm on the moors, as they were coming home to roost; and that one noise from so great a distance seemed only to deepen the stillness.
— from Mrs. Gaskell by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell