If for example, when my Father, the Triangle, approaches me, he happens to present his side to me instead of his angle, then, until I have asked him to rotate, or until I have edged my eye round him, I am for the moment doubtful whether he may not be a Straight Line, or, in other words, a Woman.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

The war has exorcised mutual exasperation, refounded mutual faith, healed many wounds, laid the ghosts of many doubts and arguments.
— from A Sheaf by John Galsworthy

The Persians carried the fear of defilement to an extreme, and had even more elaborate regulations than most Easterns concerning methods of purification and avoidance of defilement, both as regards personal contamination or that of the sacred elements of earth, fire, and water.
— from Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria by Lewis Spence

The Christian antiquities are too much for him, but his elastic mind expands readily to all the marvels of the Moslem situation.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner

Joint Author of "The Electric Telephone," "The Electric Telegraph," "Alternating Currents," "Arc Lighting," "Electric Heating," "Electric Motors," "Electric Railways," "Incandescent Lighting," etc.
— from Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by American School of Correspondence

Afterwards I obtained a recipe for a douche which had even more effectual results.
— from How the Garden Grew by Maud Maryon

Just in the centre of this line is a most ancient pollard oak, the crown of which will hold eight men easily, ready to spring down to earth and seize the deer as the nets fall on him.
— from The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish