Let us then, in studying the Sonnets, consider that they are from the same great master as the dramas.
— from Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems by Jesse Johnson

God loves under the impulse, so to speak, of His own welling-up heart.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

A cheerful optimism which teaches him to regard himself as one who is conspicuously regular in his habits, and who has a reputation in this respect to live up to is sure to succeed.
— from The Nervous Child by Hector Charles Cameron

Sometimes, the thoughts by which she was thus absorbed—thoughts only indicated to others by the shadow of their mysterious presence, moving in the expression that passed over her face—held her long under their influence: sometimes, they seemed to die away in her mind almost as suddenly as they had arisen to life in it.
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins

From an iron bracket in the wall burned an oil lamp which lit up the interior, showing the sacks of grain and a couple of boxes containing dried meat.
— from Across Texas by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Britton paused with a snappy intake of breath while Laurance, unwilling to interrupt, swung the stove door to and fro with a moccasined foot.
— from The Stampeder by Samuel Alexander White