Truth is thus established as being not mere subjective appearance, but objective reality, independent of the sensations, whims, and self-will of the individual.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

Brantwood, Easter Day , 1875.—I don't like to spoil my pretty sentence, above; but on reading it over, I suspect I wrote it confusing the water-lily leaf, and other floating ones of the same kind, with the Arethusan forms.
— from Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin

When Nickles announced breakfast, Captain Joe soused a bucket overboard, rested it on the rail and plunged in his hands, the splashing drops glistening in the sunlight, and called out:— “Come, Mr. Sanford,—breakfast’s ready, men.”
— from Caleb West, Master Diver by Francis Hopkinson Smith