And all the time the thousand eyes of the mnemonic eraser flickered in swift patterns, a silent measure of the cells and circuits of his mind.
— from Beyond Bedlam by Wyman Guin

The humid, grassy, pampean country extends, roughly speaking, half-way from the Atlantic Ocean and the Plata and Paraná rivers to the Andes, and passes gradually into the "Monte Formation," or sterile pampa-- a sandy, more or less barren district, producing a dry, harsh, ligneous vegetation, principally thorny bushes and low trees, of which the chañar (Gurliaca decorticans) is the most common; hence the name of "Chañar-steppe" used by some writers: and this formation extends southwards down into Patagonia.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

“Some people are so matter of fact that they suppose the whole world is of the same way of thinking.
— from A Daughter of the Union by Lucy Foster Madison

But why should poets assume, someone may object, that this mystic answering of sense to spirit and of spirit to sense is to be discovered by the imagination of none but poets?
— from The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins

All these Indications, however, may be reduced to two principal ones, which demand the greater Attention and Prudence, since they are opposite; for we have observed in the same Patient a strange mixture of Tension and Relaxation, of Shivering and Heat, of Agitation and Sinking; insomuch, that we were obliged constantly to endeavour at the expulsion of the noxious
— from A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles Its Symptoms and the Methods and Medicines Used for Curing It by Verny, Monsieur, active 1720-1721

When Consul, 1149 "he sometimes presides at special meetings of the section of the interior from ten o'clock in the evening until five o'clock in the morning.. ..
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

She seems to have always one eye upon the world while she prays, and she mourns over her own lack of devotion.
— from The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason

The piers consist of a stupendous timber framework, (creasoted by Bethel’s patent process to keep out the worm,) on each side of the harbour, 14 feet high above the p. 36 water, and 30 feet in width, filled up with immense blocks of stone from one to six tons in weight; these sides present a solid mass of masonry.
— from The New Hand-Book to Lowestoft and Its Environs by Anonymous