A gleam of exultation shot across the darkly-painted lineaments of the inhabitant of the forest, as he traced the route of his intended victims, who rode unconsciously onward, the light and graceful forms of the females waving among the trees, in the curvatures of their path, followed at each bend by the manly figure of Heyward, until, finally, the shapeless person of the singing master was concealed behind the numberless trunks of trees, that rose, in dark lines, in the intermediate space.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

ἠθέλησα, to exercise the will, properly by an unimpassioned operation; to be willing, Mat. 17.4, et al.; to be inclined, disposed, Ro. 13.3, et al.; to choose, Lu. 1.62; to intend, design, Lu. 14.28, et al.; to will, Jno. 5.21; 21.22, et al.; ἤθελον, I could wish, Gal. 4.20.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The carving is so delicate that in dim light it shows tiny heads and flames after the fashion of the Catholic church pictures of “poor souls,” in purgatory.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

émerveiller , étonner, inspirer de l'admiration.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

He was a great warrior, and went far around in different lands.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

A flashing humming-bird amid strange flowers, Or red or white; its darting length of tongue Sucking and drinking all the cell-stored sweet, And now the surfeit and the hurried fleet: A love that put into expanding bowers Of one's large heart a tongue's persuasive powers To cream with joy, and riffled, so was gone— A flashing humming-bird amid strange flowers.
— from Blooms of the Berry by Madison Julius Cawein

On his back sat Friedrich, erectly vigorous, singing for the trees' benefit,— "Oh, I wees' I was in Deexie, Look away, look away!
— from A Tar-Heel Baron by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

A vast amount of money has been expended in different localities on the Victorian coast for the purpose of developing the oyster fisheries.
— from The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett

And I do like to hear testimonies like yours, to happiness, and I feel it to be a testimony of a higher sort than the obvious one....
— from The Brownings, Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

" The two first works of importance, controverting Secularist principles, were by the Rev. Joseph Parker and Dr. J. A. Langford; Dr. Parker was ingenious, Dr. Langford eloquent.
— from English Secularism: A Confession Of Belief by George Jacob Holyoake