You will perhaps think it quite superfluous for me to remind you of this; but, from the habit of seeing the orbits of the heavenly bodies represented in diagrams and orreries, by palpable lines and circles, we are apt inadvertently to acquire the notion, that the orbits of the planets, and other representations of the artificial sphere, have a real, palpable existence in Nature; whereas, they denote the places where mere geometrical or imaginary lines run.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

"I don't know that we shall have a really pleasant evening"—Mrs.
— from Barbara Rebell by Marie Belloc Lowndes

And Shelley has a remarkable paraphrase, ending, "The story of particular facts is as a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful: poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
— from Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Quiller-Couch

She had already run past endurance, but she kept desperately on.
— from The Wailing Asteroid by Murray Leinster

King Henry commanded that he should have a right princely education.
— from Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Grace Greenwood