So well did they now get on, running rapids and making fine time, that they began to look forward with great hope to a speedy termination of the canyon.
— from The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

The idea of demigods, found in the latter verse, is called by them, when they meet with it in the Greek or Roman religion, a "myth"; and the idea of sexual intercourse between men and gods, also taught in these verses, is held worthy of all abhorrence, when these "heathen" religions are under consideration.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

In sailing through these islands, the most lovely landscapes open out before the eye, the most picturesque groupings of rocks, ridges, and mountain-peaks, ravines filled with luxuriant vegetation, valleys covered with soft verdure, so divinely fair as to appear the abode of angelic beings.
— from Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man by Mayne Reid

It was not without some expectation of having "Guilty of rococoism" recorded against me, that I avowed, very soon after my arrival, the ardent desire I felt of turning my eyes from all that was new, that I might once again see Mars perform the part of Elmire in the "Tartuffe."
— from Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1) by Frances Milton Trollope

Will the ghosts of radiant roses And my sheltered lily-closes Hold once more their shattered fragrance now November's on her way?
— from The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Fay Inchfawn