Such, for a term of many months, had been the trying and painful duty that had devolved on the governor of Detroit; when, in the summer of 1763, the whole of the western tribes of Indians, as if actuated by one common impulse, suddenly threw off the mask, and commenced a series of the most savage trespasses upon the English settlers in the vicinity of the several garrisons, who were cut off in detail, without mercy, and without reference to either age or sex.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1 by Major (John) Richardson

CHAPTER 10 A Meeting and a Parting in the Wood Perilous When the first glimmer of dawn was in the sky he awoke in the fresh morning, and sat up and hearkened, for even as he woke he had heard something, since wariness had made him wakeful.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

Outside the first greyness of dawn was in the sky.
— from Orpheus in Mayfair, and Other Stories and Sketches by Maurice Baring

It is perhaps one of the most difficult lessons to learn in art, that the warm colors of distance, even the most glowing, are subdued by the air so as in no wise to resemble the same color seen on a foreground object; so that the rose of sunset on clouds or mountains has a gray in it which distinguishes it from the rose color of the leaf of a flower; and the mingling of this gray of distance, without in the slightest degree taking away the expression of the intense and perfect purity of the color in and by itself, is perhaps the last attainment of the great landscape colorist.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

[219] Again, it is related by more than one author that when the good ship Argo was built, Athena introduced into it by way of amulet a beam hewn in the grove of Dodona, which in the subsequent voyage constantly gave the Argonauts warning and advice.
— from The Sacred Tree; or, the tree in religion and myth by Philpot, J. H., Mrs.

These Coimbra youths wear no head covering, and affect a gravity of demeanour whilst in the streets that gives them all the appearance of budding priests.
— from Through Portugal by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

H2 anchor CHAPTER XXXIII A gleam of day was in the sky as Hamel, with Mrs. Fentolin by his side, passed along the path which led from the Tower to St. David’s Hall.
— from The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim