It drinks, generally at least, at founts of beauty of quite another character; the ideal is nothing to it; the living expression [816] of reality in its every imperfection, of the revolting, of the hideous, such is the task which it imposes on itself; emotion, such its aim—a surprising strangeness of imagery, novelty of expression, peculiarity of character, harshness of pictures, harmony of rhyme replacing harmony of thought—behold its means of success.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

In the event of a retreat into neutral territory in the last extremity, the road thereto lay through Illy.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

It is noteworthy that in the later examples the wash-colours were often painted right over the red lines.
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters