Time passed; and the following May, after a gentle shower upon the mountains—a little shower islanded in misty seas of sunshine; such a distant shower—and sometimes two, and three, and four of them, all visible together in [pg 010] different parts—as I love to watch from the piazza, instead of thunder storms, as I used to, which wrap old Greylock, like a Sinai, till one thinks swart Moses must be climbing among scathed hemlocks there; after, I say, that, gentle shower, I saw a rainbow, resting its further end just where, in autumn, I had marked the mole.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

These two ways of taking the same path gave light and shade to our pleasure, a secret known only to hearts debarred from union.
— from The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac

The ceremony of presentation to the Serenissimo was quickly over, and the bride and her maidens, with Girolamo Magagnati, in sign of the Prince's favor, followed the Doge and suite into the golden looms and shifting twilights of this place of symbolism and wonder, where the vast throng waited in a solemn hush.
— from A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

Although the frantic condition and the semi-delirium generally lasts a short time only, still it is sufficiently long to exhaust completely the strength of the ordinary organism.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

Table 14.—Effect of Glycerol Level and Storage Temperature on Freezability of Semen (Average of 8 ejaculates) Storage temperature (°C.)
— from Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by W. J. Miller

Montreal district, being [Pg 209] the head and front of Iroquois invasion, consequently welcomed these colonists, and from Lake St. Peter to Lachine, on both sides of the St. Lawrence, fiefs were granted large and small to officers and men.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

We were attended by four or five servants in livery loaded with gold lace, and shown to our apartments upon the doors of which we found our names already written.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

They were received by the York Grand Lodge, and soon thereafter obtained a constitution for a "Grand Lodge of England South of the Trent."
— from The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton

He would not pause above the Weald With twilight falling dim, And mark the chequer-board of field, The water gleaming like a shield, The oast-house in the elms concealed, Nor see, from heaven’s chalice-rim, The vintaged sunset brim, Nor yet the high, suspended star Hanging eternally afar.
— from Orchard and Vineyard by V. (Victoria Mary) Sackville-West