I have often seen this diagnosed as eczema, whereas it really is very easy to tell its true nature, as it has very marked characteristics.
— from A Manual of Toy Dogs: How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Leslie, Mrs.

As a sporting dog, the Clumber is possessed of the very best of noses, a natural inclination both to hunt his game and retrieve it when killed, great keenness and perseverance wonderful endurance and activity considering his massive build, and as a rule is very easy to train, being highly intelligent and more docile and "biddable.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

Candide is so intensely French—it is even to such an extent an embodiment of one side of Frenchness—that you cannot receive its virtues except through the original tongue.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

"Its rhyme is very easy, too, though you will always be able to tell it without that," she added.
— from Jimbo: A Fantasy by Algernon Blackwood

His voice, rising in violence, echoed through the garrets in the roof.
— from Juana by Honoré de Balzac

This reaction is very evident, though transient, when a very small proportion of guaiac is present.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York

In the same letter to his daughter, Lytton continues: When my blue devils are cast out, and I recover sanity of spirits, then I say to myself just what you say to me in your letter—that the main thing is not to do but to be; that the work of a man is rather in what he is than in what he does; that one may be a very fine poet yet a very poor creature; that my life has at least been a very full one, rich in varied experiences, touching the world at many points; that had I devoted it exclusively to the cultivation of one gift, though that the best, I might have become a poet as great at least as any of my contemporaries, but that this is by no means certain to me for my natural inclination to, and unfitness for, all the practical side of life are so great that I might just as likely have lapsed into a mere dreamer; that the discipline of active life and forced contact with the world has been specially good for me, perhaps providential, and that what I have gained from it as a man may be more than compensation for whatever I may have lost by it as an artist.
— 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

This principle contradicts that 'ought to be' on the strength of which 'reflection' is vain enough to treat the actual present with scorn and to point to a scene beyond—a scene which is assumed to have place and being only in the understanding of those who talk of it.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Rest is very essential to them also just at this time, for they have enough to do to contend with the Imperialists, and the Danes are threatening them with war.
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach