—But at this point in his discourse it chanced that Zarathustra suddenly paused, and looked like a person in the greatest alarm.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Collecting I traverse the garden the world, but soon I pass the gates, Now along the pond-side, now wading in a little, fearing not the wet, Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated, (Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones and partly cover them, beyond these I pass,) Far, far in the forest, or sauntering later in summer, before I think where I go, Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence, Alone I had thought, yet soon a troop gathers around me, Some walk by my side and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck, They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive, thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle, Collecting, dispensing, singing, there I wander with them, Plucking something for tokens, tossing toward whoever is near me, Here, lilac, with a branch of pine, Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pull'd off a live-oak in Florida as it hung trailing down, Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage, And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pondside, (O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me, and returns again never to separate from me,
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Not to enter too deeply into chemical matters, we may state, at least as a probable general conclusion, that there is a period in the growth of grain and pulse crops before they are ripe, in which all the feeding qualities will be found diffused in the several plants; a little later, and the feeding matters will be found more particularly concentrated in the seed.
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

Enzymatic Splitting of Lecithins Enzyme Substrate Products A Lecithin Lysolecithin and fatty acids.
— from History of Phosphorus by Eduard Farber

"It appears to me that my dearest father is not quite as gallant as usual tonight," she said, pouting a little, like a spoilt child.
— from Stoneheart: A Romance by Gustave Aimard

He would have found or invented some pretext, and left long ago, but that in him the love of pleasure brought with it an equal fear of giving pain.
— from The Return of the Prodigal by May Sinclair

One day she brought down all the books in her room and said, ‘Please, Aunt Lily, look at them, and let them be with the rest in the schoolroom, I want to be just like the others.’
— from The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Beyond the dry bed of the torrent, and towards the east, are a number of sand dunes covered with the soda plant, and looking like anthills in the distance.
— from The Heart of Denise, and Other Tales by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

It is true, simple pleasures are less lively and interesting than violent ones, which elevate the soul, and affect all the sources of passion.
— from Fenelon's Treatise on the Education of Daughters Translated from the French, and Adapted to English Readers by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon

But Sidonia paused, and laughed loud and long, mocking the young knight's disappointment; so after he had again prayed the maiden in vain to accompany him, he left the refectory in silence, sprang upon his barb, and rode on to the wood, resolving to wait there till Diliana came up.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold