From the frantic and disheveled dances of the Bacchantes, following a wine cart through an ancient Greek village, to the shouts and groans of the mourners' bench of an old-time Methodist camp-meeting, religious excitement has always stirred human nature more profoundly than any other emotion except that of passionate love.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The thickening gloom and mist were rapidly encircling her, and shrouding her from our sight.
— from A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston

In all other respects except her arm she has admirable health, has an excellent appetite, and is capable of enduring fatigue.
— from The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2) by Marshall, Julian, Mrs.

The thoracic ribs each have a single head which articulates with the centrum of the vertebra; while uncinate processes and abdominal ribs never occur.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

Thyra shook her head mournfully: "Not so, Haco; for when Hilda consulted the runes, while, last night, she mingled the herbs for my pain, which rests ever hot and sharp here," and the girl laid her hand on her breast, "I saw that her face grew dark and overcast; and I felt, as I looked, that my doom was set.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Hard Sellars was the carriage driver, and while I am sure Marse George must have had an overseer, I don't remember ever hearing anybody say his name.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

"The rebel envoy has arrived, Sire," he reported.
— from The Envoy, Her by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe