His pinched face was streaked, lines of gray ash in riverlets down the pale white of his skin.
— from Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

I omit a śloka or four lines on gratitude and ingratitude repeated word for word from the last Canto.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Now there was one of the Fellows, a choleric little old gentleman, always in residence, holding some office, in which there was as little to do, and as much to get as might be, and who seldom troubled himself much about college discipline, and looked upon under-graduates with a sort of silent contempt; never interfering with them, as he declared himself, so long as they did not interfere with him.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

Thus every time we lifted our arms we defied the laws of gravitation, and in railways and steamboats powerful laws were held in check by others.
— from Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

In the forty-second, he tells us, that when he lay down to take a little repose in the night, he reflected on the excessive and boundless love of God, and instantly rose again to pay him the tribute of the most fervent praise and thanks he was able.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

The Capécure pier made a faint, phantom-like line of gloom as it ran seawards on our left, with here and there a lump of shadow denoting some collier fast to the skeleton timbers.
— from A Marriage at Sea by William Clark Russell

It is as if Newton had introduced into his exposition of the law of gravitation an incidental remark, perhaps erroneous, about light or colours; and we were then to make this remark the head and front of Newton's law.
— from St. Paul and Protestantism, with an Essay on Puritanism and the Church of England by Matthew Arnold

'The Earl of Cassillis is besieged in the house of Inch by the Lairds of Galloway, and I ride to his assistance.'
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Now", with a twinkle in his eye, "you turned down this School Board business the other day and said you wanted to have a good time, just like other girls, and I reckon most of the girls in town would be tickled at a chance like this—"
— from The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson

“If you don’t bring back at least one golden apple in return for all these nice juicy ones that are going for your education, Molly, you are no child of mine,” Mrs. Brown had laughingly exclaimed when she kissed her daughter good-bye.
— from Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Nell Speed