‘She’s a-goin’ off,’ soliloquised Sam in great perplexity.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Perhaps it is a hedged-in garden scene, a palm grove, a flowering recess, a screen and canopy of wedding bells—but a bower of foliage of some sort is gradually taking shape.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

A soft ethereal soul looking out so stern, implacable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

For our soul sitteth in God in very rest, and our soul standeth in God in very strength, and our Soul is kindly rooted in God in endless love: and therefore if we will have knowledge of our Soul, and communing and dalliance therewith, it behoveth to seek unto our Lord God in whom it is enclosed.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

In view of the fact that many of the animals have taken very little food for some days previous to their death, it will be well to describe briefly the macroscopic picture of simple starvation in guinea-pigs.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

117 "For the love of soup!" says I, gaspy.
— from Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford

As the characteristic quality of small societies is gossip, and as gossip always includes exaggeration, the peccadilloes of the young fellows are magnified into serious sins, and then bound as a burden on the back of the poor cleric in thrall to the idle imaginings of men and the foolish fears of women.
— from The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 2 (of 2) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

There were "All-Fool's" day tricks played by the young people on such smart, independent geniuses as Irish John; the sending of a letter to him from a supposable lady friend, with a post-mark painted on it by one of the young ladies; putting parsnip ends into his study lamp for wicks, etc.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

What our science seeks is Good, human and attainable (VI.).
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

Although the law requires the husband to furnish the wife with all necessaries suitable to his condition in life, including medical attendance in case of sickness, still it gives him the right to procure these necessaries himself and to decide from whom and from what place they are to come.
— from The Law and Medical Men by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers

In this way the amount of sloping surface is greatly increased, and as a result, every shower would have much more effect in washing loose materials down to lower levels, whence the streams could carry them to the sea.
— from The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology by Rollin D. Salisbury

The Greeks practically civilised when we first meet them in Homer—Their mythology, however, is full of repulsive features—The hypothesis that many of these are savage survivals—Are there other examples of such survival in Greek life and institutions?—Greek opinion was constant that the race had been savage—Illustrations of savage survival from Greek law of homicide, from magic, religion, human sacrifice, religious art, traces of totemism, and from the mysteries—Conclusion: that savage survival may also be expected in Greek myths.
— from Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

— A reflection on Southern swamps in general.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens