Way iskuyla basta pista upisiyal, There is no school on an official holiday.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I found the view intercepted by an elevation too considerable to encounter as I felt, so sat down amid the boulders, still having a splendid prospect up the Indus, not seeing much of the river but the adjacent mountains which were more varied in form and broken up than usual here; and the colouring was this morning rich, and yet subdued and toned down under the effects of a delicious haze, the soft morning light sobering the too glaring browns of these naked rocks, leading them away from the foreground by imperceptible variations of shade—here and there a suspicion of olive green—until they were lost in the pervading blues and greys of distance.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

In pulpit utterances there is nothing strikingly trite or profound.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

Joseph Campbell, most of whose work has been published under the Irish name Seosamh Maccathmhaoil, writes both regular and free verse.
— from The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps

When there are severe symptoms, as extreme exophthalmos, greatly enlarged thyroid pressing upon the important neck structures, or serious disturbance of nutrition, an operation is always needed; but as yet we cannot be sure that it will produce even complete or lasting relief.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

"In that minute of stillness in which any new heaven is let down on a suitable new earth, a little voice piped up:— "'Tell it now,' says the voice.
— from Mothers to Men by Zona Gale

In after years Robert loved his mother more for the fight she put up, though it never seemed to him that he himself had done anything extraordinary.
— from The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by James C. Welsh

No orders reached him from the General of the Brigade in command; except for the well-known war-shouts of the Zouaves that ever and again rang above the din, he could not tell whether the French battalions were not cut utterly to pieces under the immense numerical superiority of their foes.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

This balance is brought about by slightly varying the distance of one of the secondaries from the primary, until there is no sound in the telephone.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane