Within was seen the forge, now blazing up and illuminating the high and dusky roof, and now confining its lustre to a narrow precinct of the coal-strewn floor, according as the breath of the bellows was puffed forth or again inhaled into its vast leathern lungs.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Larger in most parts measured; maxillary tooth-row 4.7-5.0 instead of 4.0-4.6; color [Pg 114] brighter on sides (reddish instead of ochraceous); supraorbital border angular instead of rounded; anterior border of zygomatic plate convex in upper half and almost straight in lower half as opposed to nearly straight throughout in boylii ; pterygoid fossa broader; bullae more pointed anteriorly and less inflated; mesostyles of upper molars larger; surface between orbital region and nasals convex in lateral view instead of flat.
— from Taxonomic Status of Some Mice of The Peromyscus boylii Group in Eastern Mexico, With Description of a New Subspecies by Ticul Alvarez

The tide was running strong against the rowers, and night closed in long before we approached the shore; but though the light of the heavens had faded, the ocean was illuminated with that beautiful phosphoric fire so well known in warmer latitudes.
— from Waterloo Days: The narrative of an Englishwoman resident at Brussels in June 1815 by Charlotte A. (Charlotte Anne) Eaton

Von Heflinger caught the spirit and his hands moved quickly over the keyboard, now running arpeggios, now crashing in loud chords or falling so softly that the tones were scarcely audible.
— from Doris Force at Locked Gates; Or, Saving a Mysterious Fortune by Julia K. Duncan