This illustration sets in so clear a light the doctrines entertained respectively by Aristotle, Eudoxus, and the Stoics regarding pleasure, that it is worth while to go into it fully.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Will you give me leave to illustrate this affair of wit and judgment, by the two knobs on the top of the back of it?—they are fastened on, you see, with two pegs stuck slightly into two gimlet-holes, and will place what I have to say in so clear a light, as to let you see through the drift and meaning of my whole preface, as plainly as if every point and particle of it was made up of sun-beams.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The commoner form, which we have termed “ subacute infantile scurvy ,” comprises a large number of symptoms which are inconclusive individually, and frequently escape correct interpretation.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Then actually he did slip into some clothes, and, looking round quickly at her, was gone out of the room.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Then she folded it and sealed it, smiling charmingly at Leonidas's puzzled face.
— from Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte

They stood in such close and living communication with their Lord in heaven; they knew so well that the words, “all power is given unto Me,” and “Lo I [p 28 ] am with you alway,” were absolutely true; they had such faith in His promise to hear them whatever they asked—that they prayed in the assurance that the powers of heaven could work on earth, and would work at their request and on their behalf.
— from The Ministry of Intercession: A Plea for More Prayer by Andrew Murray

you spoke to him!" said I. She coloured a little, as if she had said more than she meant.
— from The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

When the balloon had reached an altitude estimated at 600 feet the onlookers were horrified to see it suddenly collapse, a large rent having developed near the top part of the silk, from which the gas "rushed out in a dense mass, allowing the balloon to fall like a rag."
— from The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation by John M. (John Mackenzie) Bacon

But if what has been said is substantially correct, a little has been added to what was known before about this interesting story.
— from The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries by Oscar Ludvig Olson

The treatment of the subject is so clear and logical, so simple and scholarly, that it deserves the highest praise.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Nelson had even written to a Boston specialist who treated the eyes, and who had been very successful in such cases as Lottie's.
— from Janice Day at Poketown by Helen Beecher Long

“I do the housekeeping in the morning,” she said; “I see cook and look after everything to make things as you like.”
— from Bird of Paradise by Ada Leverson

The wild and discordant crew, starved and flogged for a season into submission, conspired at length to rid themselves of him; but while they debated whether to poison him, blow him up, or murder him and his officers in their sleep, three Scotch soldiers, probably Calvinists, revealed the plot, and the vigorous hand of the commandant crushed it in the bud.
— from France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman