They're titanic tests tubes of nature, with automatic reading devices attached, hung in the sky for us to watch.
— from Islands of Space by Campbell, John W., Jr. (John Wood)

This being the case, joined to their extreme youth, they had not yet been set down, as they must necessarily be, in a few years, for persons of no weight, and rather detrimental than advantageous to people of no consequence.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

To name him is to summon him; the Indians of Washington Territory even change their own names when a relative dies, because “they think the spirits of the dead will come back if they hear the same name called that they were accustomed to hear 546 before death.”
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

"Miss Percival has dressed her all over new with a red dressing-gown and a black hat."
— from Dotty Dimple at Play by Sophie May

He is the first Florentine who shows a real appreciation of the beauty of Nature, who allows real daylight to enter into his pictures, and who studies reflections.
— from Filippo Lippi by Paul G. (Paul George) Konody