The outcome: an immense vista of reflections that penetrated every liquid molecule.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

For anger is altogether irrational, and that is not courage which is void of reason.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The board was covered with an indescribable variety of roast and boiled, of fish, flesh, and fowl.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

30 —Perdonad, padre mío, que interrumpa vuestras oraciones (replicó Rubens).
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Indistinct visions of rook-pie floated through his imagination.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

ay-ar it n a recently introduced variety of rice, the IR-8 miracle rice.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Responses which we may call sexual in view of results to which they may ultimately lead are thus often quite independent, and exist before they are drawn into the vortex of a complete and actually generative act.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Of course there can be no attempt at asepsis in a place so ill ventilated, or, rather, not ventilated at all, for there are no side windows, and, although the skylight is sufficient for lighting
— from Eighteen Months in the War Zone The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front by Kate John Finze

Exposition of the Church in View of Recent Difficulties and Controversies, and the Present Needs of the Age, 117 .
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

§ V.— Satisfaction in View of Right Conduct, and Remorse in View of Wrong.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

It is very inspiring to write with such a view before one’s eyes as that from our drawing-room at Allan Bank, where the trees of the shrubbery gradually run up into the trees of the cliff, and the mountain-side, with its infinite variety of rocky peaks and points upon which the cattle expatiate, rises over the tops of the trees.”
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Ecce ille seminat inimicitias, iste vult omnia reconciliare et pacificare in se; Ergo sunt contrarii sibi.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

The courtship, however, had been for the most part carried on at the picturesque old house of Gorton, where 'Christopher North' was temporarily residing, and which, situated as it is overlooking the lovely glen made immortal by the name of Hawthornden, in view of Roslin Chapel, and surrounded by old-fashioned walks and gardens, must have been an ideal spot for a romantic couple like the Ferriers to roam in.
— from James Frederick Ferrier by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane

In the account of the scabbard of the sword we have a most interesting variety of readings, but, comparing one with the other, it appears certain that here again 1533 is in the right.
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston