Compare the Saxon and the Celt with regard to the gladsomeness of life as shown in their literature.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Mr. Moore, an English traveler and writer, in a large collection of drawings taken from Hindoo sculptures and monuments, which he has arranged together in a work entitled "The Hindoo Pantheon," has one representing, suspended on the cross, the Hindoo crucified God and Son of God, "our Lord and Savior" Chrishna, with holes pierced in his feet, evidently intended to represent the nail-holes made by the act of crucifixion.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

What is the cause, therefore, which has driven so many select gods to these very small works, in which they are excelled by Vitumnus and Sentinus, though little known and [Pg 261] sunk in obscurity, inasmuch as they confer the munificent gifts of life and sensation?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

form of the name of a German goddess of light and spring sunshine; see Grimm, Teut.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

hurry &c. (hasten) 684; accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I suppose it is all very elegant to go on like a set of trained canaries, but it's very dull fun to watch them, and Hepsey's stories are a deal more interesting to me."
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

He entered, gave one look, and stood silent as the rest.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

They show us the hopes, fears, and desires of great tribes and peoples which existed in the days before men wrote history; and they show us how their wisest teachers groped in the dark, and stumbled in the thorny path,—favoured occasionally, it is true, with a wonderful glimpse of light, and striking now and again into the pleasant places, but never rejoicing in the glory which rose upon earth with the Sun of Righteousness, never treading in that narrow but secure way which leads to Eternal Life.
— from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Turbulence and misrule continued until the scheme of government of Locke and Shaftesbury was abandoned; a better day then dawned.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

The wind sang softly in the cedars, and the water sang among the caves; the sea-birds sang as they streamed out into the ocean, and the land-birds as they built among the boughs; and the air was so full of song that it stirred St. Brandan and his hermits, as they slumbered in the shade; and they moved their good old lips, and sang their morning hymn amid their dreams.
— from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley

All the good orchestra leaders are supposed to have fine fits of frenzy when they tear their hair in wrath at the discordant braying of careless players.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

However, everything is right so far as perspective is concerned, and the gradation of light and shade is scrupulously observed; but, despite such praise-worthy efforts, I am unable to believe that that beautiful body is animated with the warm breath of life.
— from Honoré de Balzac by Honoré de Balzac

We have therefore, it is maintained, only to organize the lower grades of labour, and "sweating" will cease to exist.
— from Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

His health had not been good of late, and sometimes attacks of gout were superadded.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille

It grows on logs and stumps in the woods.
— from The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

THE NOANK'S LOG: A Privateer of the Revolution Illustrated by Will Crawford The further adventures of the plucky Guert Ten Eyck, as he fought King George on land and sea.
— from Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student by Oliver Optic