The storm was over, and the moon was up; it shone upon broken clouds above, and below upon houses black with moisture, and upon little lakes of the fallen rain, curling into silver beneath the quick enchantment of a breeze.
— from The Wives of the Dead (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The little wooded promontory that flanked the park, with the higher hill, starting up from the isthmus over which the road passed, rose grandly up, like two towering steps, towards the glittering heavens; and beyond the sloping fields and their hedgerow elms, with many an undulating line, lay soft and obscure, in the sheeny moonlight, as far as a spot where, half-way up the higher hill in front, the extreme horizontal line of the distant country cut upon the sky.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Many a happy gathering was held there, and many a useful lesson learned in it.
— from True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Theodore P. Wilson

The valley into which we looked was full of brightest sunshine; the mountain above us looked like a cowled monk.
— from Among the Forces by Henry White Warren

Not to go too far back among these, it is perfectly safe to say that when the slavery question began to divide all kinds of men among us, Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier, Curtis, Emerson, and Bryant more or less promptly and openly took sides against slavery.
— from Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) by William Dean Howells

Diome la sangre en el mio, y bueto mi casa huyendo miro a una luz la ropilla, y olia como un incienso.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

"I am to entertain the Missionary Society this afternoon, and Dr. Bascom has given me an unusually long list of the 'sick and in prison' kind to look after this month.
— from In League with Israel: A Tale of the Chattanooga Conference by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

They are of very dark colour, have coats made of woollen blankets; wear mocassins, and undressed leather leggings, necklaces of checkered glass beads, with a large shell in the form of a collar, silver rings in the nose and ears, and smooth copper rings on the wrists.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard