“Oh! di, di ” (beautiful), cried my young Laotian guide; and when I asked Küe what he thought of it, “Oh! master,” he replied, in his mixed jargon of Latin, English, and Siamese, “the Siamese see Buddha on a stone, and do not see God in these grand things.
— 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

The Joyes Of Life Eternall, And Salvation The Same Thing, Salvation From Sin, And From Misery, All One The joyes of Life Eternall, are in Scripture comprehended all under the name of SALVATION, or Being Saved.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

There was marvelous freshness in the colors of the mosaics in the great arches of the facade, and all that gracious harmony into which the temple rises, of marble scrolls and leafy exuberance airily supporting the statues of the saints, was a hundred times etherealized by the purity and whiteness of the drifting flakes.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Abruptly here she stops; then turns away Her loathing eyes, and shuns the sight of day.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

They are strongly of opinion that there must be some mistake in the calculations by which those venerable wise men and fathers , do so infallibly contrive to sweep the results of the poor man's toil and privation into their own garners,—calculations which enable the legislator to enjoy in lordly ease and splendour, the sight of the plebeian's misery, which enable him to lavish on his idlest whims, to give to his dogs that which would save lifetimes of unreckoned human misery.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

We laugh now at the plays of revenge before "Hamlet," where the stage ran blood, and even the movie audience no longer enjoys a story the single motive of which is physical revenge.
— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby

All this is done upon a plan, and with the incessant supervision of the director, upon whose learning, enthusiasm, and suggestiveness, the success of the seminary depends.
— from The History of University Education in Maryland The Johns Hopkins University (1876-1891). With supplementary notes on university extension and the university of the future by Bernard C. (Bernard Christian) Steiner

THE MAID OF NEIDPATH O lovers ’ eyes are sharp to see, And lovers’ ears in hearing; And love, in life’s extremity, Can lend an hour of cheering.
— from The Flower of the Mind by Alice Meynell

And the inevitableness of his own presence at the scene; the strong arm that drags him in view of the scourge, and holds him there till all is over; forcing upon his loathing eye and soul the sufferings and groans of men who have familiarly consorted with him, eaten with him, battled out watches with him—men of his own type and badge—all this conveys a terrible hint of the omnipotent authority under which he lives.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

'Oh! di, di! ' (beautiful) cried my young Laotian guide; and when I asked Küe what he thought of it, 'Oh! master,' he replied, in his mixed jargon of Latin, English, and Siamese, 'the Siamese see Buddha on a stone, and do not see God in these grand things.
— from Siam : The Land of the White Elephant as It Was and Is by George B. (George Blagden) Bacon

And since this was the thing which they of the South most delighted to believe concerning themselves, they listened enraptured, and set the speaker apart as a rare and discerning spirit.
— from Sylvia's Marriage: A Novel by Upton Sinclair

Who is it?" Just before you reach the Whitney drive there is a right angle turn from the trail which we were following; it back-tracks a little, errs and strays through some fine jasmine "bowers," and comes out at the old race track.
— from We Three by Gouverneur Morris