It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing landscape that she most delighted; she loved more the wild wood-walks, that skirted the mountain; and still more the mountain's stupendous recesses, where the silence and grandeur of solitude impressed a sacred awe upon her heart, and lifted her thoughts to the GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Thus in the cord, the skin alone occasions movements; in the upper part of the optic lobes, the eyes are added; in the thalami, the semi-circular canals would seem to play a part; whilst the stimuli which discharge the hemispheres would seem not so much to be elementary sorts of sensation, as groups of sensations forming determinate objects or things.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

She saw her husband, Pyotr Dmitritch, and Lubotchka Sheller, a girl of seventeen who had not long left boarding-school.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Yet, in point of fact, such a group of sensations does often merge into a complex image; instead of the elements originally perceptible in isolation, there arises a familiar term, a sort of personal presence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

On the contrary, we have every reason to believe, from the study of the tertiary formations, that species and groups of species gradually disappear, one after another, first from one spot, then from another, and finally from the world.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Now whether the compression shortened my uncle Toby's face into a more pleasurable oval—or that the philanthropy of his heart, in seeing his brother beginning to emerge out of the sea of his afflictions, had braced up his muscles—so that the compression upon his chin only doubled the benignity which was there before, is not hard to decide.—My father, in turning his eyes, was struck with such a gleam of sun-shine in his face, as melted down the sullenness of his grief in a moment.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and groups of species have at all times overmastered other species in the great battle for life.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

And now the thick-set forest all receives A flood of moonlight—and there gently floats The sound of a guitar of Inspruck; notes Which blend with chimes—vibrating to the hand— Of tiny bell—where sounds a grain of sand.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Veiners, 5 Venetian finger painting, 113 Venice, wood-carving at, 66 Verge or barge-board, 151 Vestibule, ornamenting a, 142 Violin and guitar cases, 145 Wainscots, etc., carving for, 74 Walnut wood, treatment of, 110 Waste-paper boxes, carving, 98 , 146 Wasting, or chipping, 42 Wax, for moulds, 107 , 115 , 116 ; as a polish for wood, 111 Window gardens, 129 Wood, for carving, 14 , 36 , 88 , 106 ( see also Grain, Oak, Splintering, Walnut, etc.); colouring and staining, 110 ; decayed, treatment of, 106 ; imitation of, 106 , 108 ; oiling, 66 Workman, the, and the artist in wood-carving, 82 Wreaths, in ornament, 151 , 152 Zigzag ornament, the Swiss, 96 Transcriber’s note The cover of this book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
— from A Manual of Wood Carving by Charles Godfrey Leland

Judson could not suppress a grin of satisfaction.
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

The period in which its events and characters are laid, the Great Rebellion, so called, has not recently been treated, but it has great capabilities for romantic and humorous characterization, which Warburton has employed, not indeed with the sagacity and genius of Scott, but with much skill and with dramatic effect.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

"It gives such a grasp of, such an insight into, human nature.
— from The Passport by Richard Bagot

She was strangely cheerful and uplifted; a consciousness of approval soothed and comforted her and she recalled, as she had not for many a day, the night of her mother’s death—the night when she, a girl of seventeen, had had the burden of a mother’s confession laid upon her young heart....
— from The Man Thou Gavest by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

Where life moves and has being, In water, earth and air I questioned, Asking of all things, Where weak still is strength, And germs only stirring, What men thought dear— And stronger deemed— Than woman's love and delight.
— from The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie The Ring of the Niblung, part 1 by Richard Wagner

Soon he arose and paced along the shore, And gazed out seaward for the blessed light; But nought he saw except the old sad sight, The ceaseless tumbling of the billows grey, The white upspringing of the spurts of spray Amidst that mass of timbers, the rent bones Of the sea-houses of the hapless ones Once cast like him upon this deadly isle.
— from A Selection from the Poems of William Morris by William Morris

But he only smiled a sad, sweet smile, and got out some more diagrams.
— from Alonzo Fitz, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

The Town Hall at Hackney stands on a plot of ground known as Hackney Grove, and the neighbouring Mildmay Park and Mildmay Grove suggest a grove or sanctuary of the Mild May or Mary.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley