Then as to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling,) while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara falls, the upper Yellowstone and the like, afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the Prairies and the Plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The newspapers of the Union, such as the New York Herald, are genuine powers, and their reporters are men to be reckoned with.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

It therefore invents mechanical instruments to do the measuring of our sense perceptions, as their records are more accurate than human observation unaided.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The glowing fire in the centre, the appetizing smell of the kettle and sizzling fat in the pan, and the relaxation and mellow warmth as they reclined upon the boughs brought a sense of real comfort and content.
— from Ungava Bob: A Winter's Tale by Dillon Wallace

The discipline of this society is kept up by monthly meetings, composed of an aggregate of several particular congregations, whose business it is to provide for the maintenance of their poor, and the education of their children; also to judge of the sincerity and fitness of persons desirous of being admitted as members; to direct proper attention to religion and moral duty; and to deal with disorderly members.
— from Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Caroline Frances Cornwallis

Monsieur Tiphaine at once perceived in the case of Pierrette against the Rogrons a means of humbling, mortifying, and dishonoring the masters of that salon where plans against the monarchy were made and an opposition journal born.
— from Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac

To inspire such fear was plainly the object of Philip’s threat, that, should the Wittenbergers not prove amenable, he would make advances to the Emperor and the Pope, and the repeated allusions made by Luther and his friends to their dread of such a step, and of his falling away, show how his threat continued to ring in their ears.
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The Earl of Buckingham is made one of the council there, and takes his place above the rest as Master of the Horse.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

From the games and athletic exercises of this people all the ruder and more violent sports are excluded.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

Cornelison’s ship happened to be in the port, and they rejoiced and made merry with their old companions, who had long given them up for lost.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

A signal proof of their continued suppleness came but the other day when we acquainted ourselves with the work of the English novelist, Mr. Percy White, and it was the more signal because we perceived that he had formed himself upon a method of Thackeray's, which recalled that master, as the occasional aberrations of Payn and Trollope recall a manner of him.
— from Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells