"But, Marion," exclaimed Helen, half-shocked, half-eager, "surely our feelings are given, like everything else, to lead us to God!
— from Fairy Gold by Christian Reid

‘This exotic Animal is extremely well worthy the Observation of the Curious: Its Eyes are of great Lustre, even equal to that of a Diamond, and its Skin so exquisitely mottled and of such surpassing Beauty as baffles the Art of the most celebrated Painter: It is about five Feet long, an
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

We’ll get leave easily enough though, provided we agree to take Jim the boatman with us; so I vote we make up a party.”
— from Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Yet the early heroic poems give less evidence even than the Homeric poems for cruelty of this kind.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

He is fond of music, of which, though not a judge, he is a great lover, especially enjoying the music of the human voice.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

I once examined a man and remarked to him that he was thoroughly endowed with the qualities essential to a good locomotive engineer, except that the organ of color was slightly deficient.
— from How to Become Rich: A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony by William Windsor

I work it to the bone, I can tell you, and get little enough even then."
— from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth