And as every passion has its proper pulse, so will it likewise have its characteristic modes of expression.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was like the act of asking if there were anything she could yet do, and that question was answered by her immediately feeling, on this closer view, as she had felt when presenting herself in Portland Place after Maggie's last sharp summons.
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 by Henry James

Five times each day he prostrated himself in public prayer, surrounded by his friends and followers, and his demeanour became grave, serious, and thoughtful.
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

The place Around is holy, dread Posidon here Is present, present here the lord of fire, Titan Prometheus.
— from Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Sophocles

It is but fair to add that these Yankees, brave as they have ever proved themselves to be, did not confine themselves to theories and formulæ, but that they paid heavily, in propriâ personâ, for their inventions.
— from From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It by Jules Verne

California, Its Past History; its Present Position, etc. London, 1850.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Someone had crept up behind him as he was stalking to and fro, head in air proudly, hands in pockets, pipe in teeth, and had (after several heart-breaking failures) succeeded in attaching to the back of his jacket by means of a pin a huge placard carefully prepared beforehand, bearing the numerical inscription 606 in vast writing.
— from The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

In perfect health, in perfect physical fitness, he had passed his days, filled with that deep, laughing happiness which comes from a quiet mind.
— from Burning Sands by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

With a ream of writing-paper, a pint of ink, and sixpennyworth of pens, he is professionally provisioned for half a year.
— from Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray

In order to place himself in proper position as a non-invader he proceeded to Monterey, Cal., at the earliest practicable moment and applied to the commanding general, Don José Castro, for permission to extend, in the interests of science and commerce, the geographical survey of the nearest route between the United States and the Pacific Ocean.
— from Explorers and Travellers by A. W. (Adolphus Washington) Greely