That the mere matter of a poem, for instance—its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture—the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape—should be nothing without the form, the spirit, of the handling; that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter:—this is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

"After that I suppose I got used to him.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[Line-Art Drawing] "Very well," returned the Gump, quietly; and it spread its great wings and mounted high into the air.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

On several evenings after that, I visited Sripati's house, and, calling Kusum to me, discussed with her matters relating to you, and so I succeeded in gradually overcoming her shyness.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Hence, the necessity of tendering the witness oath did not fix the limit of debt upon simple contract except by tradition, and it is not surprising to find that the action was slightly extended by analogy from its scope in Glanvill's time.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

This much pleased her, and it will be seen that I succeeded in getting just such a set as exactly suited the great object in view, approachable without being under the observation of others; commodious and agreeable, where all that the dear Benson wished to be added to our set were brought together, and the wildest orgies of the most insatiable lust were carried on.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

[4] Such names abound now, as Bang-cha, Bang-phra, Bang-plá-soi, &c.; Báng signifying a small stream or canal, such as is seen in gardens.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

She was hasty, but good-humoured; vain (she could not help it, when every glance in the glass showed her such a flush of loveliness), but not affected; liberal-handed; innocent of the pride of wealth; ingenuous; sufficiently intelligent; gay, lively, and unthinking: she was very charming, in short, even to a cool observer of her own sex like me; but she was not profoundly interesting or thoroughly impressive.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The Serpent was also called ahi in Sanskrit, in Greece echis or echidna , in Latin anguis .
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Whatever, therefore, might be the secret reasons which impelled Lady Annabel to shroud the memory of the lost parent of her child in such inviolate gloom, it is certain that the hitherto restless though concealed curiosity of Venetia upon the subject, the rash demonstration to which it led, and the consequence of her boldness, instead of threatening to destroy in an instant the deep and matured system of her mother, had, on the whole, greatly contributed to the fulfilment of the very purpose for which Lady Annabel had so long laboured.
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Perspective of Framing of Wide Enclosed Implement Shed In general the construction of a machine shed is that of the very simplest; yet utility and beauty can be very easily combined with simplicity.
— from Implement sheds by K. J. T. (Karl John Theodore) Ekblaw

In short, I grew ambitious.
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

Under it stood in golden letters, "Agnus Dei, miserere nobis."
— from The Son of His Mother by Clara Viebig

Standing faithfully by his text, and printing its very errors in spelling, in grammar or otherwise, he has taken care by some note to indicate that they are errors, and what the correction of them ought to be.
— from Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

His body was seen to bound outward, but instead of reaching the shelf, for which it started, it gathered itself like a ball and rolled down the hill after his predecessor.
— from The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West by Edward Sylvester Ellis

It shakes its gory locks at him, crossing his path everywhere like an avenger who will not be appeased.
— from Bible Emblems by Edward Eli Seelye

If she should have any trouble getting a situation, one way out of the difficulty is to offer her services one month on probation to a hotel man in need of a [Pg 13] housekeeper; and, if she is granted a trial and mixes brains with her enthusiasm, she will receive a housekeeper's salary at the end of the month.
— from Guide to Hotel Housekeeping by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Palmer

Should remains of still older organisms be found in those rocks now known to us only by pebbles in the Laurentian, these names will at least serve to mark an important stage in geological investigation."
— from Life's Dawn on Earth Being the history of the oldest known fossil remains, and their relations to geological time and to the development of the animal kingdom by Dawson, John William, Sir