All that had ever happened in the world here lived and moved on the panes of glass, in pictures such as time alone could produce.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

It was a dazzling mine of gems, in particular sapphires and emeralds, whose jets of blue and green crisscrossed.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Such is the force of a great impersonal prejudice, such as possesses the modern world on so many points.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

This happened within hail of a small sloop from Madeira, which picked up one of the crew (the only person saved), and which rode out the gale in perfect security, as indeed a jolly boat might have done under proper management.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Dr. Lewis Bremer, late physician at St. Vincent's Institute for the Insane says, "Basing my opinion upon my experience gained in private sanitariums and hospitals, I will broadly state that the boy who smokes cigarettes at seven will drink whisky at fourteen, take morphine at twenty-five, and wind up at thirty with cocaine and the rest of the narcotics.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

( b. ) concēdō; forsitan aliquis aliquandō eius modī quippiam fēcerit , V. 2, 78, I grant it; perhaps somebody, at some time or other, may have done something of the sort .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Cabbages grew in plain sight; and a pumpkin-vine, rooted at some distance, had run across the intervening space, and deposited one of its gigantic products directly beneath the hall-window; as if to warn the Governor that this great lump of vegetable gold was as rich an ornament as New England earth would offer him.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

What brought him hither, him, whom I believed in London, immersed with Gerald in political schemes, and for whom these woods were not only interdicted ground, but to whom they must have also been but a tame field of interest, after his audiences with ministers and nobles?
— from Devereux — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

There were among them Washington, Adams, Hamilton, and Jay; and there were the interested and practical advocates of the same, made up of business men and the wealthy and leisurely classes, who, without intending to be selfish, were governed in political sympathy and action mainly by their own interests.
— from History of the United States, Volume 2 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews

The expression to make good is pure slang, and should be supplanted by one of the many legitimate English words and phrases which convey the same meaning.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

They never meet upon saints days, as such, that is, as days demanding the religious assemblings of men, more than others; first, because they conceive this would be giving into popish superstition; and secondly, because these days were originally the appointment of men and not of God, and no human appointment, they believe, can make one day holier than another.
— from A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends by Thomas Clarkson

We pass many little places ever growing in popularity, such as Veules and St Valery en Caux, bearing family resemblance to Dieppe in their situation in the breaks formed by streams cutting through the chalk cliffs, and come to Fécamp, which is a bit of a health resort, a bit of a manufacturing town, and a bit of a fishing harbour, without being particularly distinguished in any one of the three things.
— from Normandy by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Essentially a tree of the hilly section, growing in pure stands and in mixture with hardwoods , the mature tree has a tall straight stem and an oval crown , reaching a height of about 100 feet and a diameter of about 2½ feet.
— from Forest Trees of Texas: How to Know Them by C. B. (Cyril Bertram) Webster

Investigating the cause of this phenomenon, I discovered that, during the day, the trees had been felled in the garden, and peering out into the gloom, I perceived, stretched along the ground, the trunk of the pine which, for two years, had hid from me the room where burned the fraternal light.
— from The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers by Girardin, Emile de, Mme

This was going it pretty strong, and I grinned at Windy Bill.
— from The Killer by Stewart Edward White

With respect to plants, no one would expect wheat to tiller more, and each ear to produce more grain, in poor than in rich soil; or to get in poor soil a heavy crop of peas or beans.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin