In "Minka," the gloom of a sombre autumn day depresses us as it does Eugene, and lends some of its own unearthly sadness to the strange story.
— from A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Paul Heyse

“I feel almost as well as ever I did, excepting a little shaky, and with a smart here and there in the burned places.”
— from Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy by Kirk Munroe

Thrones might be subverted, and kingdoms lost and won, in distant Europe, and less should be said of the events, by those who dwelt in these woods, than of one scene of peculiar and striking forest incident, that called for the exercise of the stout courage and the keen intelligence of a settler.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper