But if we concede the claim, we should have to conclude that God knew but little about them, for he certainly would not knowingly employ such moral outlaws upon such an important mission.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

nd, I could only make out uncertain, strange, and incomprehensible words.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

He loved the very quarries of Carrara, those strange grey peaks which even at mid-day convey into any scene from which they are visible something of the solemnity and stillness of evening, sometimes wandering among them month after month, till at last their pale ashen colours seem to have passed into his painting; and on the crown of the head of the David there still remains a morsel of uncut stone, as if by one touch to maintain its connexion with the place from which it was hewn.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

The 26-inch refractor at the Leander McCormick Observatory, U. S. A., is successfully engaged in observations of nebulæ, and many new objects of this character have been found.
— from Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings by William F. (William Frederick) Denning

“It’s not above half a mile down that path to the village, and there’s a good many of us scattered about in the lodges and gardens to make company for each other.”
— from Maud Florence Nellie; or, Don't care! by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

Rocky Mountains of United States, and interior regions of British America, to the Yukon … var. umbelloides .
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

Even the education of most of us, such as it is, has been in a great measure acquired out of school, as it were; I mean outside of the acknowledged duties of our more serious existence.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Then follows a tooth-and-nail encounter, in which the male, or unworthier sex, as it is with hawks, gets the worst of it.
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

In either case it was evident that he must be a man of unusual shrewdness; and it also was evident that his feeling towards us—since we also could perform a miracle that he obviously made use of as a means of manifesting his divine right to rule—must be that of strong hostility.
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

Having been permitted to examine the original articles of enrolment, dated May 1, 1877—a document, by the way, curiously characteristic of the whole undertaking, being a jumble of articles and by-laws written on a few slips of ordinary paper, a miracle of unworldly simplicity and in very indifferent spelling—I found the objects of "the company," as it is called, were "agricultural, manufacturing, commercial, and other industrial pursuits," and the establishment and maintenance of "colleges, seminaries, churches, libraries, and any other charitable or scientific associations."
— from Sinners and Saints A Tour Across the States and Round Them, with Three Months Among the Mormons by Phil Robinson

Our ardent summers, from June to October, make open, unshaded streets, almost impassable, and reflect heat upon our dwellings from the side-walks and beaten road.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

The truth is," Margaret owned up, "she and I were not specially interested in it." "Oh!
— from Her Husband's Purse by Helen Reimensnyder Martin