They haunted his pictorial fancy, not as mockeries of life nor pale goblins of the dead, but in the guise of portraits, each with an unalterable expression which his magic had evoked from the caverns of the soul.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Water is also in need of protection, being the greatest element of nutrition, and, unlike the other elements—soil, air, and sun—which conspire in the growth of plants, easily polluted.
— from Laws by Plato

The military virtue of an Army is, therefore, one of the most important moral powers in War, and where it is wanting, we either see its place supplied by one of the others, such as the great superiority of generalship or popular enthusiasm, or we find the results not commensurate with the exertions made.—How much that is great, this spirit, this sterling worth of an army, this refining of ore into the polished metal, has already done, we see in the history of the Macedonians under Alexander, the Roman legions under Cesar, the Spanish infantry under Alexander Farnese, the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus and Charles XII, the Prussians under Frederick the Great, and the French under Buonaparte.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Meanwhile, the locust kept singing in the great old Pyncheon Elm.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In Mohita Babu's edition these Morning Songs have been placed in the group of poems entitled Nishkraman , The Emergence.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

In this gayety of Paris, England cracked her whip; Lord Seymour’s post-chaise, harassed by a nickname from the populace, passed with great noise.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

This is one of the conclusions arrived at by Adolf Wagner [298] which corroborates the experience of practising lawyers and we who have had, during the growth of popular education, the opportunity to make observations from the criminalistic standpoint, know nothing favorable to its influence.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

They are of far greater importance than technical principles of delivery, grace of gesture, or polished enunciation—important as all these elements must doubtless be considered.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

As each guest or party enter the room, advance a few steps to meet them, speaking first to the lady, or if there are several ladies, to the eldest, then to the younger ones, and finally to the gentlemen.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

She had said that to him, and in saying it had given him a glimpse of possibilities, even of confidences, as if he might be the one to share her loneliness, the mere hint of which made his heart beat faster and his brain spin.
— from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

The speech of Pitt on 14th May, to which reference has already been made, naturally lacked energy and fire; he opposed Fox's motion solely on the ground of present expediency.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

In my enthusiasm I already stand upon the boundary of the true world—I have a glimpse of paradise; earth recedes from my gaze; I understand and expect death, because life has bid me a last farewell—the exaltation that I feel belongs to the future of the blessed; it is a triumphant dying—that final and supremely happy thought that tells me my soul is about to take its flight.
— from The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers by Girardin, Emile de, Mme

Much was said in praise of his astonishing executive powers, of his brilliant and fiery delivery, 8 of his singular gift "of putting expression into the most rapid prestissimo—so that in softness and pathos it was equal to an adagio" 9 —and of his wonderful memory, enabling him to play the most difficult compositions without the notes.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

It is recruited principally 67 from journalists, who carry into their official career the trained instinct of observation, the quick grasp of passing events which belong to their former profession.
— from Uncle Sam Abroad by Jacob Elon Conner

When singsong reading was going on, pupils echoing responsively the teacher’s voice, some wild boy would suddenly redouble his effort with gusto, and his voice, like that of a strangled chicken, would soar away up, to the great merriment of the rest.
— from When I Was a Boy in Japan by Sakae Shioya

Of timber there was plenty, heavy growths of pine extending from the edge of the creek bed to the edge of the detritus, with here and there an opening made by the avalanches which had cut into the greenery for short distances.
— from The Man from Bar 20: A Story of the Cow Country by Clarence Edward Mulford

These processes of transmission have been going on, practically, ever since man was man.
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault

I suppose he has never got over poor Eva’s death.
— from Imogen; Or, Only Eighteen by Mrs. Molesworth