With that view Walter made a round of the leading universities of Germany, conversed with the professors and students, collected a long list of the questions that were being debated in that day in those seats of learning, and sent the list to Behmen, asking him to give his mind to them and try to answer them.
— from Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation by Alexander Whyte

Dr. Dewees is persuaded that he has "known death itself to follow the use of cold water," in this way—I believe he means immediate death—and adds, with great confidence, that he has "repeatedly seen it require the lapse of several hours before reaction could establish itself; during which time the pale and sunken cheeks and livid lips declared the almost exhausted state" of the infant's excitability.[Footnote: "Dewees on children" p. 72.]
— from The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

A landscape destitute of passion and sensual charm, a landscape like Miss Tancred.
— from The Return of the Prodigal by May Sinclair