Here there is temptation enough to linger; but we pass on to a most interesting chapter of the second volume, which illustrates, as well and more briefly, the merits of Mr Craik's book.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849 by Various

The mystery and romance woven around all the various works of art and useful objects that have withstood the destructive powers of time and men is captivating.
— from Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms by Guido Bruno

Three explanations are offered: First , that the astral body of the living medium detaches itself from its corpus and assumes the appearance of the so-called spirit; for one of the properties of the astral matter is capacity to reflect an image existing unseen in ether.
— from The Ocean of Theosophy by William Quan Judge

The plumage of the adult matches, in color, this mud.
— from Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima by Glen Everett Woolfenden

Climate, doubtless, has great influence on food, and English dinners would no more suit an Egyptian sun than would the two regulation paximatia of the Abbot Moses in Cassian be enough for even the most willing of English Cistercians.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

"I did not pursue the plan I spoke of to Cos, of getting a peep of the Alps, my investigations cutting off the time assigned to it.
— from The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

This was nothing to be disconcerted about, the very promptness of the action making it certain that the sitter must have been the male.
— from A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey

The green-and-gold mosaic with which the interior of the dome and the upper portion of the adjacent masonry is covered, cannot be very old, though their dim and antique beauty is worthy of the older art.
— from The Holy Land by John Kelman