It, with the preceding scene and with others unnarrated but existent by implication, to which add essays on various subjects or moral apothegms (e.g. My Favourite Hero or Procrastination is the Thief of Time ) composed during schoolyears, seemed to him to contain in itself and in conjunction with the personal equation certain possibilities of financial, social, personal and sexual success, whether specially collected and selected as model pedagogic themes (of cent per cent merit) for the use of preparatory and junior grade students or contributed in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or Heblon’s Studies in Blue , to a publication of certified circulation and solvency or employed verbally as intellectual stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly appreciative of successful narrative and confidently augurative of successful achievement, during the increasingly longer nights gradually following the summer solstice on the day but three following, videlicet, Tuesday, 21 June (S. Aloysius Gonzaga), sunrise 3.33 a.m., sunset 8.29 p.m. Which domestic problem as much as, if not more than, any other frequently engaged his mind? What to do with our wives.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.
— from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

And the Persian remembered that, as she went, she did not give a glance at M. de Chagny, who, it is true, was sleeping peacefully; and she sat down again in her chair by the chimney-corner, silent as a sister of charity who had taken a vow of silence.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Note 10 ( return ) [ 'Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative,' Second Series, 1863, p. 111.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

In several places also she saw thickets and shady places and houses here and there, which were all alike to her an anguish for desire of them.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

8 20 que se pone al sol : 'sunning himself.'
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

“I have been, up to this dance,” and Patty smiled pleasantly, as she spoke.
— from Patty's Social Season by Carolyn Wells

The old servant was daunted by seeing Sylvia in a strange place, and stood, sleeking his hair down, and furtively looking about him, instead of seating himself on the chair Sylvia had so eagerly brought forward for him.
— from Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Duncan suggested various subtle methods of appealing to Dr. Leighton’s favor, but Sam preferred a simple, straightforward course,—which was unquestionably the best one.
— from The Yale Cup by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

The Duchess had in her secret letters to Philip continued to express her disapprobation of the enterprise thus committed to Alva, She had bitterly complained that now when the country had been pacified by her efforts, another should be sent to reap all the glory, or perhaps to undo all that she had so painfully and so successfully done.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Mrs. Mildmay was about to touch the bell, when at a gesture from Violet she paused and said: "Shall we have a cup of tea by moonlight?
— from The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love by Charles Garvice

Everywhere indeed, in our industrial age,—in a society inclined to materialism, scholarship, pure and simple scholarship for its own sake, no less in Ohio than in Tennessee, is the thing to be insisted on.
— from Certain Diversities of American Life by Charles Dudley Warner

Maritime claims: none (landlocked) Climate: arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers Terrain: mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest Elevation extremes: lowest point: Amu Darya 258 m highest point: Nowshak 7,485 m Natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones Land use: arable land: 12.13% permanent crops: 0.21% other: 87.66% (2005) Irrigated land: 27,200 sq km (2003) Natural hazards: damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; flooding; droughts Environment - current issues: limited natural fresh water resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; soil degradation; overgrazing; deforestation (much of the remaining forests are being cut down for fuel and building materials); desertification; air and water pollution Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Marine Dumping signed, but not ratified: Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation Geography - note: landlocked; the Hindu Kush mountains that run northeast to southwest divide the northern provinces from the rest of the country; the highest peaks are in the northern Vakhan (Wakhan Corridor)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The fast made her seem fit to say prayers, and she said all she knew over his head, like a mother brooding.
— from Mackinac and Lake Stories by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

The result was that whilst she produced a singularly striking and effective portrait of her heroine, it was not one which was absolutely satisfactory to those who were the oldest and closest friends of Charlotte Brontë.
— from Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid