The graceful pile of cathedral architecture rose dimly on their left hand, but it was lost upon them now.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

[Pg 273] the principles of conservatism and reform, devoted to humanity, generous, heroic, independent, and ‘clear in his great office;’ and thus furnished and inspired, waging the battle of honest opinion, a staunch advocate of truth, stripping the mask from fanaticism and dishonesty, and shedding pure intellectual light on the common mind;—no more noble function can be imagined.
— from The Collector Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers by Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman

Its only inhabitants are 500 nomads, and on the ten marches of the trade route, the bridle paths, on which in some places labour has been spent, the tracks, not always very legible, made by the passage of caravans, and rude dykes, behind which travellers may shelter themselves from the wind, are the only traces of man.
— from Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

The State Paper Office contains a rather different version of this interview, which it will be interesting to compare with that of Bourgoyne.
— from The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician by Samuel Cowan

Though the wrath of God shall fall upon the children of disobedience, our Saviour invites us, in gentle accents, to the green pastures and the still waters of the Heavenly Canaan; to cities resplendent with pearls and gold; to mansions of which God is the architect; to the songs of seraphim, and the flight of cherubim, exploring on tireless pinion, the wonders of infinity; to peace of conscience, and rapture dwelling in the pure heart, and to blest companionship loving and beloved; to majesty of person and loftiness of intellect; to appear as children and as nobles in the audience-chamber of God; to an immortality of bliss.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various

And when he came out at the wood's far side, The sun was setting in golden pride, There were plenty of clouds all rainbow dyed, But not a sign of the rainbow.
— from The Adventures of A Brownie As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Indeed, his power of clear and rapid draughtsmanship was the other side of his unusual power of visualizing a conception.
— from Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch by Leonard Huxley

But, in most of the orders made under Governor von Bissing's rule (his reign began on December 3rd, 1914), this last pretence of consideration and respect disappears entirely.
— from Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium by Emile Cammaerts

Of the château we shall speak hereafter: but it is only here necessary to say, that in building this dwelling beyond the walls, the Count de Morseiul of that day had forgotten altogether the possibility of carrying a road down that side of the hill.
— from The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James