The abstract concepts of the reason can only serve to take up the objective connections which are immediately known by the understanding, to make them permanent for thought, and to relate them to each other; but reason never gives us immediate knowledge.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

From the turning which directed its course to the southwest, the river narrowed gradually and the channel lay between high banks, over which the trees formed a double arch.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The weather was very bad; snow and rain fell; the roads, never good in that section, were intolerable.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He allowed me to take the chair from his hand, and I was trying to pacify him by the assurance that I required no guide, when the irrepressible Wise again lifted his voice— “Theer's George comin'!
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner—for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

'But Geor—is the right name Georgina or Georgiana?' 'Georgiana.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And last, but by no means least, there was Mr. Dick Curtis, who on a certain interesting occasion had "stood up" with Richmond, and now, resplendent in a white vest and excruciating neck-tie, was making most anxious inquiries about our friend Emily Murray, about whom he said his private opinion, publicly expressed, was, that she was a "real nice girl—a regular stunner, sir, and no mistake!"
— from The Actress' Daughter: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

retty nearly gone into winter quarters.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

He gave Nindemann a pair of deer-skin boots and a deer-skin, and in return Nindemann gave him a shirt.
— from The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole by George Bryce

Sunshine which happily rose cloudless; and allowed me to meditate my tyrannies before breakfast, under [Pg 79] the just opened blossoms of my orchard, and assisted by much melodious advice from the birds; who (my gardener having positive orders never to trouble any of them in anything, or object to their eating even my best peas if they like their flavor) rather now get into my way, than out of it, when they see me about the walks; and take me into most of their counsels in nest-building.
— from Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by John Ruskin

It is a grazing region, and large herds of cattle are fattened upon the rich native grasses.
— from Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns Along the Route; and Regions Traversed Beyond the Mississippi; Together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the Journey by Willard W. Glazier

The day began to wane, and he could neither return nor go forward.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi