The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

When Clem finished the present missive he folded it and returned it to the envelope rather thoughtfully.
— from Right Tackle Todd by Ralph Henry Barbour

Mingled with the tumult on deck, the howling of the wind, the hiss of escaping steam, and the slap of the vicious seas, came the unmistakable sound of volumes of water rushing in through the enormous rent in the ship's bottom, caused by the explosion of the torpedo.
— from Under the White Ensign: A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

The ivy had reached in through the empty round, and covered this stone with a thick mat, more black than green.
— from Rosin the Beau by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Our reports indicate that the Eries' rockets bounced off harmlessly.
— from Armageddon—2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan

Within is one of the most fairly constructed natural harbors ever seen, a spacious haven of protection, often crowded with vessels, which run in there to escape rough treatment outside.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook

I made sure, if the property was really involved to the extent reported, that he would sell some of the lands he had in other counties; a farm or two he had in Sussex; a tolerable estate in the north; and a foolish marine villa somewhere in Devonshire, and pay off all incumbrances, and settle himself for life at Bandvale Hall.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

20 The avalanche—the equivoque of the original, turning on the Swiss word Lawine, it is impossible to render intelligible to the English reader.
— from The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller

In the 197 mean time supposing his view to have been this of countenancing the introduction of satyric persons into the Atellane (and that they were, in fact, introduced, we learn from an express authority 21 ) every thing said on the subject will not only be pertinent and agreeable to what is here taught to be the general tenor of the epistle, but will be seen to have an address and contrivance, which will very much illustrate this whole part, and recommend it to the exact reader.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd