Just what the doctor said afterwards she didn't hear, for she was thinking of the swift, wide arc of change through which her mind had swung from the time when Marshall Haney first came to Sibley—so grand of stride, so erect, so powerful.
— from Money Magic: A Novel by Hamlin Garland

Thus we see that there are various grades of spiritual sight, each suited to the superphysical realm which it opens to our perception: Etheric vision, color vision and tonal vision.
— from The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

Giving one such strange expressions— Sullen, stupid, pert expressions.
— from Rhyme? And Reason? by Lewis Carroll

"They'll go out soon," said Elsie, soothingly, as she removed a shoe-horn from contact with George's mouth.
— from Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris

They could possibly have dreamed of; 'Giving one such strange expressions— Sullen, stupid, pert expressions.
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell

‘Giving one such strange expressions— Sullen, stupid, pert expressions.
— from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

She stood with a meditative air, holding a large piece of gauze, or some such ethereal stuff, as if considering what picture should next occupy the frame; while at her feet lay a heap of many-colored garments, which her quick fancy and magic skill could so easily convert into gorgeous draperies for heroes and princesses.
— from The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thinking creatures (L.) Rochet: A bishop's white gown or surplice Satis: Enough Sault: Jump Scire facias: To know the appearance of (L.)
— from Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars by Samuel Butler

Mr. Watts took the view (to Rossetti’s great vexation at first) that this sonnet, howsoever perfect in structure and beautiful from the artistic point of view, was “out of place and altogether incongruous in a group of sonnets so entirely spiritual as The House of Life ,” and Rossetti gave way: but upon the subject of Wordsworth in his relations to Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, he was quite inflexible to the last.
— from Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir