She had had to suffer much in mind and in body as the result of being left almost destitute after a life of luxury, yet she seldom complained.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

He said it was as big as a hat, it opened its mouth like an oyster, barked like a dog, and flew at his legs!
— from Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series Life in the Llanos of Venezuela by Ramón Páez

She has many things still remaining from her own trousseau, and many others bought later, as during all these years she has been gathering all kinds of beautiful things for our marriage outfits; really they are well worth seeing.
— from The Journal of Countess Françoise Krasinska, Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel by Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa

The colonel laughed, and the inmates of the other beds laughed, and Dick and Sister Gilbert laughed, for that, you must know, was a very good joke.
— from The Fighting Starkleys; or, The Test of Courage by Theodore Goodridge Roberts

Till mean things put on beauty like a dress And all the world was an enchanted place.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris

Our companies were marched to the neighborhood of the platform, and allowed to sit or stand, as at the Sunday services; the platform was occupied by ladies and dignitaries, and by the band of the Eighth Maine, which kindly volunteered for the occasion; the colored people filled up all the vacant openings in the beautiful grove around, and there was a cordon of mounted visitors beyond.
— from Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

From these statements the duality of the creator and his power over both light and darkness alike, stand out clearly.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

Till mean things put on Beauty like a dress, And all the world was an enchanted place.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris

The pure and simple religion of ancient Persia, originating, it is said, with a pastoral and hunting race among the lofty hills of Aderbijân, or, as others think, in the elevated plains of Bactria, in a region where light appears in all its splendour, took as its fundamental principle the opposition between light and darkness, and viewed that opposition as a conflict.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley