[ 6 ] Mr. Grant Allen himself, in an article from which I shall presently quote, admits that a set of people who, if they had been exposed ages ago to the geographical agencies of Timbuctoo, would have developed into negroes might now, after a protracted exposure to the conditions of Hamburg, never become negroes if transplanted to Timbuctoo.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

It is a fairy-like sheet of pure water in the heart of the mountain wilderness, only about a mile in length, but full of trout.
— from A Tour to the River Saguenay, in Lower Canada by Charles Lanman

I said only a few words, of the joy of this person in finding and loving God, and immediately my friend spoke very severely of persons who imagined they had found, and loved, God.
— from The Prodigal Returns by Lilian Staveley

It is 152 a fairy-like sheet of pure water in the heart of the mountain wilderness, only about a mile in length, but full of trout.
— from Letters from a Landscape Painter by Charles Lanman

Scarcely had an hour elapsed, ere I was awoke by an unusual stir, and then was informed by one of my servants that my wife's brothers, attended by several other persons, were in the house.
— from The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier

The gallantry and merits of companions fallen in strife were presented by those most intimate with them; and otherwise dreary hours were pleasantly whiled away with narratives of personal encounters, of terrible sufferings of prisoners while in the hands of the enemy, and of hair-breadth escapes.
— from Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard W. Glazier

The presence of woman is not perhaps relatively so prominent in his work as it is in the work of some other poets; woman is to him neither an exclusive preoccupation, nor a continual unrest; but as faithful and vital representations, I do not hesitate to put his portraits of women quite on a level with his portraits of men, and far beyond those of any other English poet of the last three centuries.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons

"Why," said Hector, laughing, "it depends upon the stock of practical wisdom in the heads; for two fools, you know, Louis, will hardly form one rational plan."
— from Lost in the Backwoods: A Tale of the Canadian Forest by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

"This is what Hen's written with a lead pencil on this sheet of paper, which I think he must have torn from a little memorandum book I happen to know he always carries about in his pocket.
— from Afloat; or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Douglas, Alan, Captain