We called that winter in the South, but it was just a perfect English summer, smiling upon the tropical growth of a Pacific island.
— from Madame Gilbert's Cannibal by Bennet Copplestone

It was a case of the fish playing Joe, a pretty even struggle, but Joe was game and bound to have him.
— from Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895 by Various

y la juventud al ponerse el sol, fueron para mí verdaderos iris de bonanza después de cuarenta días de capa
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

When the Righteous God is contending with Apostate Sinners, for their departures from him, by his Judgments, as Plagues, Earthquakes, Storms and Tempests, Sicknesses and Diseases, Wars, loss of Cattle, &c. Then not only to ascribe this to the Devil, but to charge one another with sending or commissionating those Devils to these things, is so abominable and so wicked, that it requires a better Judgment than mine to give it its just denomination.
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 3 of 3) by Robert Calef

We learn, from the observations of Smeathman and Drury, that this is the insect noticed in the observation upon Charaxes Jason, as possessing exceedingly strong powers of flight.
— from Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3 by Dru Drury

But evidently, in spite of Ferrier's work, Jowett, and possibly even Schelling himself, had no idea of the extent to which the plagiarisms extended.
— from James Frederick Ferrier by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane

The very calmness of the night was thought to smile upon them with a purer air; the trumpets clanged, horns sounded, and the shrill intonations of the pipe, and the deeper notes of the timbrel and harp, struck upon the ear; and soothing symphonies were heard, like various voices blended in one; and there was not a man who did not, after his own fashion, indulge in joy and praise; either singing popular ballads to testify the gladness of his heart, or reciting the deeds of the ancients, stimulating by their example the spirit of the moderns.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss