It is when the woods are bare and deep with snow, when the cold, dead winter makes outside living impossible, that one really appreciates the coziness and protection of the life in these deep rooms, sunk like wells into the hearts of the trees.
— from Wild Life Near Home by Dallas Lore Sharp

How they returned to the “Castel-a-Mare” and got themselves and their mountain of luggage into the one room in all Taormina they might call theirs for as much as a night, they never knew; when consciousness came back they were sitting in front of food in a bright dining-room, and knew by each other’s faces that hot water and soap must have happened in the interval.
— from Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica by Anne Hoyt

Being a man of little imagination, though of retentive memory, he judged the whole profession by the two or three members of it, or rather pseudo-members, he had been unfortunate enough to encounter professionally.
— from People of Position by Stanley Portal Hyatt

He has also one civilian scout, paid for from the appropriation for the army, whose duty it is to patrol the 5,000 [207] square miles, more or less, in the original reservation and the forest reserve!
— from The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive by Hiram Martin Chittenden

He also convicted the officers of the American navy not merely of lying in their official reports--which was a duty expected of them both by government and people--but of cowardice in action, of misconduct in their operations, and of brutality toward enemies whom the chance of war threw into their power.
— from James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

according to the more or less; in the outermost Region of the Mouth are formed, ( b ) and ( p ) when, viz.
— from The Talking Deaf Man A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who is Born Deaf, May Learn to Speak by Johann Conrad Amman

"'My own Lucinda!' interrupted the other, raising her handkerchief to conceal her satisfaction.
— from Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Retta Babcock