‘No, sir,’ replied Bob, With no remains of the clown about him, save and except the extreme redness of his cheeks.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

At the same time, he made these conceptions valid of phenomena, because he did not allow to sensibility a peculiar mode of intuition, but sought all, even the empirical representation of objects, in the understanding, and left to sense naught but the despicable task of confusing and disarranging the representations of the former.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

It is particularly in their infancy, if it may be so called, that we ought to be upon our guard against their seduction; they are then soothing and insidious; but if we suffer them to gain strength, and establish their empire, reason, obscured and overcome, rests in a shameful dependence upon the senses; her light becomes too faint to be seen, and her voice too feeble to be heard; and the soul, hurried on by an impulse to which no obstacle is presented, communicates to the body its languor and debility.
— from Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett

Behind the little structure, an elegant trellis encloses regular parterres, and the picture thus composed almost reproduced the picture of the house of Sylvie as it is shown to us by an engraving of Pérelle.
— from The Spell of the Heart of France: The Towns, Villages and Chateaus about Paris by André Hallays

Bart told that story in such a whimsical way, and with such an eye to effective representation, that in five minutes he had all his audience in another roar of laughter, worse than the first.
— from The Boys of Grand Pré School Illustrated by James De Mille

[59] Six days after his arrival in Rochelle, the little saloon in Clement Tournon's house presented as calm and pleasant a scene as ever the eye rested upon.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

On the morning of the 15th of July just at sunrise, suddenly, unexpectedly, as if the infernal regions had suffered an eruption, the earth rocked and trembled, the Heavens seemed pierced and rent with the roar and thunder of cannon of all sizes, mortars from gunboats, siege guns, land batteries and everything of a terrifying and destructive character, that man was capable of inventing appeared to be turned loose, an explanation of which no one would venture to make.
— from Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade by Lot D. Young

Reduced to the last extremities, shut up to a dark despair, indignant for the seeming neglect of friends, and dreading the relentless wrath of the enemy, the brave garrison accepted the only hope of life which yet remained, by surrender; and, be it said to the honour of the Indian character—with the generosity which becomes the conquering soldier in the presence of a brave yet vanquished foe—the terms imposed were such as enabled the exhausted remnant of the garrison to retire with all the honours of war.
— from History of the Scottish Regiments in the British Army by Archibald K. Murray

Attended by the jail chaplain—one who, in the last bitter trial, clave to the condemned soldier closer than a brother—he steadily mounted the stairs, and entered the execution room.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

"At the Tiger's Head, between seven and eight this evening," reiterated Mr. Orridge, as the housekeeper opened the door for him.
— from The Dead Secret: A Novel by Wilkie Collins

As soon as ever the Expectoration returns, the Fever and the other Symptoms disappear.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot