We may say that besides suggesting abstractly all ordinary passions, music creates a new realm of form far more subtly impassioned than is vulgar experience.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
The frequent wars and unsettled times sufficiently explain the numerous ruins of former flourishing colonies.
— from Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry
The good cavalier, now relieved of fear for her soul's welfare, returned earnest thanks to the Virgin, and looked upon his ward with affection growing perilously fast.
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson
No renewal of firing from the position occupied by the enemy disturbed the silence that followed.
— from The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins
The tide—a high one to-night—had shut them in; the waters were already beat-beating against a jutting rock, which made a bend in the shore on their one side; on their other the sea lay a wide waste of [p 128 ] water; there was no retreating or fleeing, for the tide had shut them in.
— from The Heiress of Wyvern Court by Emilie Searchfield
Gwendolen was not a woman who could easily think of her own death as a near reality, or front for herself the dark entrance on the untried and invisible.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Noteworthy records of foxes from South Dakota.
— from Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota by J. Knox Jones
Should a youth of Missouri, surrounded by influences and temptations which he could not resist, once fall from a position of honor and integrity, although it is his first violation of the law, he will be taken into custody of the State, hurled into a pit, where for a time he will inhale the fetid breath of wickedness, then, later on, to be released and sent out into the free world a moral leper.
— from The Twin Hells A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries by John N. (John Newton) Reynolds
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