—Generally ‘Rudi’ is very eager to learn, and when he is not I make a cross face; then he gets red and his thoughts are concentrated again.
— from The Life of Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania) by Natalie Stackelberg

But the broad leaves woo the cool night airs, and while the thin, harsh, tough foliage of the wattles becomes languid and droops and falls, the banana grove retains its verdancy, each plant a reservoir of sap.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

As our planet and the harvests that cover it are the thoughts of God rushing into visible expression, so all houses and ships, all cities and institutions, are man's inner thoughts, taking on outer and material embodiment.
— from A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis

Lady Midlothian seemed on the present occasion to remember nothing of this, but Lady Glencora remembered it very exactly.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

The more modern structure is in the Gothic style, built of brick, and the site being on elevated ground renders it very effective.
— from Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou

To be sure, there are two or three small counting-houses at the other end of George Street, in that ambitious pile called Gresham Chambers; but the owners of these places of business live, as a general rule, in villas, either detached or semi-detached, in the North-end, the new quarter, which, as everybody knows, is a region totally unrepresented in society.
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant