The manor-house in which Anna Sergievna resided stood on an open hillock, and close to a yellow stone church with a green roof, white columns, and an entrance surmounted by a fresco representative of Our Lord's Resurrection—the latter executed in the "Italian" style, and having as its most noticeable feature the figure of a swarthy warrior whose rounded contours filled the entire foreground.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

There is, therefore, a greater and a lesser evil in this important subject of the opulent, unrestricted by any law, ruining his whole generation.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

On asking this correspondent to explain more fully what he meant by these last words, the answer he wrote was this:— “ I mean that the fear was so invasive and powerful that if I had not clung to scripture-texts like ‘ The eternal God is my refuge, ’ etc., ‘ Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, ’ etc., ‘ I am the resurrection and the life, ’ etc., I think I should have grown really insane. ”
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

"While the American soldiers lay encamped in this inactive situation," (in the low country near Charleston,) "their tattered rags were so completely worn out, that seven hundred of them were as naked as they were born, excepting a small slip of cloth about their waists; and they were nearly as destitute of meat as of clothing."
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

If men stayed long enough in trenches, I should say, from my studies in evolution, that their legs would slowly merge into one sort of fin-like tail, and their arms into seal-like flappers.
— from Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather

I mean that the fear was so invasive and powerful that, if I had not clung to scripture-texts like The eternal God is my refuge , etc., Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy-laden , etc., I am the Resurrection and the Life , etc., I think I should have grown really insane."
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

Halls such as these existed until quite lately even in the immediate suburbs of Manchester, in the original streets of which town there were many black-and-white fronts, as to the present moment in Chester, Ludlow, and Shrewsbury.
— from Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Leo H. (Leo Hartley) Grindon

Napier pulled out his watch and made a low exclamation, intended to indicate some pressing business overdue.
— from The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

But seeing that the more material is the human mind, the longer it lasts, even in the intermediate stage, it frequently happens that after the present life of the soulless man is ended, he is again and again
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

If our St. Elizabeth had resembled our little Eva in that, I scarcely think the Landgravine-mother would have ventured to have been so cruel to her.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles