The lists of her intended employments for the next day, so many of which remained amongst her papers, show how little of her time and attention was given to pecuniary matters.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

One of Wordsworth's latest poems was addressed to the Mount of Wanswell, rising above his country home at Ambroside, closing with the prophetic lines: When we are gone From every object dear to mortal sight, As soon we shall be, may these words attest How oft, to elevate our spirits, shone Thy visionary majesties of light, How in thy pensive glooms our hearts found rest.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

But whan man or wuman repents and heumbles himsel, there is He to lift them up, and that higher than ever they stede afore!”
— from Salted with Fire by George MacDonald

The aversion displayed toward him by dogs had now become a matter of wide remark, and he was obliged to carry a pistol in order to traverse the countryside in safety.
— from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

I looked at the first group, fully expecting to see them hold out their hands to help their comrades; but in place thereof, I saw one wretch, who occupied the best position on the floating mass of wreck, raise a heavy piece of bamboo with both hands, and bring it down with a crash upon the head of the first man who swam up.
— from Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser by George Manville Fenn

In painting, the chief training consists in learning to draw and paint from copies and models, the naked body chiefly (the very thing that is never seen, and which a man occupied with real art hardly ever has to depict), and to draw and paint as former masters drew and painted.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For the first time that morning, he took a survey of the entire horizon, to see if anything were in sight; for, hitherto, his thoughts had been too much occupied with Rose and her companions, to remember anything else.
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper