To proceed apace, What sort of nature thunderbolts possess Is by their strokes made manifest and by
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Between the blue of the sky and the tenfold blue of the sea these bare ranges seem, beneath that daylight, to present a whole system of noble colour flung abroad over perfect forms.
— from The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

The rubbishy specifications are flourished in the face of a poor competitor, and form a basis for threats which a man who is not wealthy dare not resist, knowing the heavy cost of fighting any patent action whether successful or not.
— from Rebuilding Britain: A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War by Hopkinson, Alfred, Sir

Then, on certain cords being pulled, a whole screen of net rose from tree to tree, so that all passage through the row was blocked.
— from Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone Notes, social, picturesque, and legendary, by the way. by Angus B. (Angus Bethune) Reach

I went with her to a priest, and we signed our names.
— from A Girl of the North: A Story of London and Canada by Susan Morrow Jones

Malentour (Vol. iii., p. 449.) —Your correspondent F. E. M. will find the word Malentour , or Malæntour , given in Edmondson's Complete Body of Heraldry as the motto of the family of Patten alias Wansfleet ( sic ) of Newington, Middlesex: it is said to be borne on a scroll over the crest, which is a Tower in flames.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

It is, like the kosmos, in a state of becoming and there may yet appear to our cognitive powers a whole series of new numbers pure in itself and altogether conformable to the conditions reigning at the time.
— from The Mystery of Space A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the Evolution of New Psychic Faculties and an Inquiry into the Genesis and Essential Nature of Space by Robert T. Browne

A more healthy system now prevails, and we seldom or never find anything in the way of ornament, emblem, or inscription of an offensive or ridiculous character placed in any of our burial-grounds, the Burial Boards being as strict and watchful over the cemeteries as the rectors and vicars are in the management of the churchyards.
— from In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W. T. (William Thomas) Vincent

There is something peculiarly stagnant and wo-begone in the appearance of Frejus, which, however, is in more strict poetical character with its Roman ruins, than the populous and wealthy streets of Nismes would be.
— from Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by John Hughes