Beyond the shouts of the sentries at regular intervals no sound came from the island.
— from The Fight for Constantinople: A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

There, methinks, I see thee as in thy happy days, “reclined on deep beds of fragrant lentisk, lowly strewn, and rejoicing in new stript leaves of the vine, while far above thy head waved many a poplar, many an elm-tree, and close at hand the sacred waters sang from the mouth of the cavern of the nymphs.”
— from Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang

Those who are too poor to give the ears of the rice except on special occasions, can yet afford a wisp of rice-straw for many a shrine, and rice is naturally symbolic of all their material welfare.
— from A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist by Marie Carmichael Stopes

But this matters little to the dodder, which has had time to be visited and fertilised by insects, and to set and ripen its numerous seeds.
— from The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen

And even before the adoption of this resolution, the feeling in favor of free-trade had been greatly strengthened by the Great Exhibition, which not only delighted the world for six months with a spectacle of such varied and surpassing beauty as even its original projector, the Prince Consort, had not pictured to himself, but which had also the farther and more important effect of instructing the British workman in every branch of manufacture, by bringing before his eyes the workmanship of other nations; and, as we may well believe (though such a result is not so easily tested), of improving the mutual good-will between rival nations, from the respect for each which the experience of their skill and usefulness could not fail to excite.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

Campanella was as earnest a believer in the interrogation of nature as Bacon, and the place which science and learning hold in his state (although research is not so prominent as in the New Atlantis), and the scientific training of all the citizens, are a capital feature.
— from The Idea of Progress: An Inguiry into Its Origin and Growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury

It was like a glimpse of paradise to little Agnes; for, having been brought up in the simplest of styles, and forbidden pastry and sweatmeats altogether since the day of her birth, she absolutely revelled in new sensations.
— from The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

I shall always regret I never saw him,' said her ladyship.
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield