Reader, have you ever felt thus 'in downright earnest' for salvation?
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

“Just here you can touch the bottom if you stretch your arm, but it slopes sharply and is deep enough for swimming over at the other edge.
— from The Pool of Stars by Cornelia Meigs

It has looked out from its dull eye for so long, standing on one leg, on moon and stars sparkling through silence and dark, and now what a rich experience is its!
— from History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

His fine presence, his richly melodious voice, his graceful style and fresh, practical evangelical thought made him so popular that he was in demand everywhere for special occasions and services.
— from Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography by Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard) Cuyler

This notion, with whomsoever it originated, is decidedly erroneous, for such charges are found not only in the arms of distinguished nobles and knights in the very earliest days of hereditary armory, but occur also in those of several of the sovereign states of Europe.
— from The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

" The queen simply took no notice of the compliment, but it had its desired effect, for she changed the tone of her talk a little, speaking more seriously.
— from Marzio's Crucifix, and Zoroaster by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

The contact is made with the end of the laterally prominent transverse process of a Cervical vertebra other than the Atlas, and the movement is directed entirely from side to side.
— from Technic and Practice of Chiropractic by Joy Maxwell Loban