Subsequently, on the night of April 26th, six other transports with numerous barges loaded with hay, corn, freight, and provisions, were drifted past Vicksburg; of these the Tigress was hit, and sunk just as she reached the river-bank below, on our side: I was there with my yawls, and saw Colonel Lagow, of General Grant's staff, who had passed the batteries in the Tigress, and I think he was satisfied never to attempt such a thing again.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

I never saw such a lot of green grass, seems so, all at once.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

“He hears me not—he thinks not of me.—Is it not strange that the love of gathering gold should survive the care to preserve both property and life?”
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott

And, as it closed about us, as we came to our village at nightfall, and the sunshine, like a sinking lake of gold, grew softer and softer behind the uplands, the solid world of rock and tree, and stubble-field and clustered barns, seemed to be growing pure thought—nothing seemed left of it but spirit; and the hills had become as the luminous veil of some ineffable temple of the mysterious dream of the world.
— from October Vagabonds by Richard Le Gallienne

There too the ivy hangs in long festoons, waving like tapestry to the breath of stealthy breezes; while under foot is a tangle of acanthus, thick curling leaves of glossiest green, surmounted by spikes of dull lilac blossoms.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

As the sun rose, level lights of golden green streamed round the peak right and left over the downs: but only for a while.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley

After passing up a flight of broad, uncarpeted stairs, you again see the name of that respectable firm painted on a light of ground glass set in the office door.
— from Daisy's Necklace, and What Came of It by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

[122] At a still later day, Mr. Justice Johnson, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and a citizen of South Carolina, in his elaborate Life of General Greene, speaking of negro slaves, makes the same unhappy admission.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner