Some few miles off he could see a gleam of the Hudson river, and above it a spur of those rugged cliffs scatter'd along its western shores.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The operation of raising commenced about two o'clock p.m., and about eight in the evening, the spire and vane were seen erect, and appeared to those unacquainted with what was going on, to have risen amongst the trees, as if by magic.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

She outlived her brother, given over "to her religion and her over-thrown beliefs."
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

It was a wistful, sad-eyed, plaintive face, and on the pale gold of the hair rested a coronal of lilies.
— from A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel by Marie Corelli

"Don't be worried, my dear," said I. "I sha'n't go over to his religion again,—unless, indeed, you should insist upon it.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics by Various

Uncle Jack soon became absorbed in his new speculation for the good of the human race, and, except at meals (whereat, to do him justice, he was punctual enough, though he did not keep us in ignorance of the sacrifices he made, and the invitations he refused, for our sake), we seldom saw him.
— from The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Thence it goeth on to Hatton, Roiton, and there crossing another from Woodhouses, comming by Haughton and Euelin, it Worfe.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

"I wish I had met him, I'd have given him a bit of my mind about going off to his revenge, as he calls it, without ever a thought what was to become of his own flesh and blood here.
— from Under the Storm by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Much has been said and written, of late years, on the sanitary condition of the great towns of this country, and on the importance of thorough cleansing and draining, as a preservative against the epidemic diseases which have so often lately afflicted, and in some instances nearly decimated, our population; and when we state that, in the neighbouring city of Glasgow, during last year only, the mortality was one in nineteen of the population, and that the number of deaths exceeded the number of births by more than sixteen thousand,—that the mortality from fever, in particular, is known very generally to fall upon those who, in a worldly point of view, are the most valuable lives in society, and that a new and still more appalling epidemic is already among us—we have surely said enough to show that there cannot be a more important or serious object of contemplation, or of inquiry, than the means of purification and sanitary improvement of such graves of the human race, as so many parts of that and others of our great towns are at this moment.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 by Various

That is one thing about being a widow, you are accustomed to advising with a man, whether you want to or not, and you can't get over the habit right away.
— from The Melting of Molly by Maria Thompson Daviess

A universal God ought to have revealed a universal religion.
— from Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'