The poets profusely celebrate silver evenings and golden mornings; but what floods on floods of beauty steep the earth and gladden it in the first hours of day's decline!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

And in the same season tranquillity was re-established even at Rome, which, from the peculiar character of the Papal power, contained special elements of provocation and danger.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

It is a relief to come upon a poem such as that in which he describes a father's poignant anguish for the loss of his son (ix. 74): effigiem tantum pueri pictura Camoni servat, et infantis parva figura manet.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

This consisted of a certain amount of fresh beef, flour, baking powder, bran, potatoes, prunes, coffee, sugar, evaporated milk, condiments, butter, lard, syrup and flavoring extract.
— from The Motor Boys in the Army; or, Ned, Bob and Jerry as Volunteers by Clarence Young

The old woman might die on the train, and besides, what possible pleasure could she extract from such a visit?
— from The Colossus: A Novel by Opie Percival Read

The childless uncle, the powerful patron can scarcely extort this compliance.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Brief sketches, entitled "Recollections of a Private," papers chronicling special events, descriptions of various auxiliary branches of the service, etc., will supplement the more important series by the various generals.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 by Various