"Blue-eyed," "white-armed," "laughter-loving," are now conventional compounds, but they were fresh enough when Homer first conjoined them.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Altogether, when I look back the whole of my life seems like a nice, clever composition.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

All variety is immanent in its light, and no change can come into it because there is no change to come ; but this Person sees all his endowments at once , in the unity of this his light, just as we see some of our endowments in the unity of this our light.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

The crisp, fresh mountain air outside the cave acted as an immediate tonic and I felt new life and new courage coursing through me.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Medea was in love, and nothing could cause her rest but Jason.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

“Squirrels,” I read in a natural history book—no natural history books tell one much about them—“squirrels invariably die of one thing, and that is inflammation of the lungs; and nothing can cure them—they die in a very few days.”
— from More About the Squirrels by Eleanor Tyrrell

§ 1 W HEN the Aryan way of speech and life was beginning to spread to the east and west of the region in which it began, and breaking up as it spread into a number of languages and nations, considerable communities of much more civilized men were already in existence in Egypt and in Mesopotamia, and probably also in China and in (still purely Dravidian) India.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

We have, indeed, in our evolution a sort of double line; one that we may call our natural evolution, concerned with our physical characteristics and the fundamentals of our mental and social traits, and like all natural characters carried along in the race by heredity; and the other, that we may call our social or moral evolution, made possible, to be sure, only by the stage of our natural evolution, but concerned chiefly with various acquired mental and social characters, which are not an integral part of our heredity, but depend on speech, writing, education, precept and practise for transmission from one generation to the other, and, thus, for perpetuation and expansion in the race.
— from The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

By Jane Harrison , Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge, Author of Prolegomena to Study of Greek Religion .
— from The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru by Lewis Spence

Tongue short, triangular, fleshy; œsophagus dilated into a pretty large crop; stomach oblong, muscular, with the epithelium dense and longitudinally rugous; intestine long and rather slender; cœca long and nearly cylindrical; cloaca globular.
— from A Synopsis of the Birds of North America by John James Audubon

He had been loved, nothing could change that; he could go on loving and nothing could change that either.
— from The Song of Hugh Glass by John G. Neihardt