But if it be said that our soul needs the senses in order to understand, through being in some way awakened by them to the consideration of those things, the intelligible species of which it receives from the separate principles: even this seems an insufficient explanation.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Yet the awe of that solemn ravine, which they had reached after such peril, enthralled them still and I think both felt as if somehow their love had been consecrated by a divine being.
— from The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

Legs of ordinary length; tarsus 402 longer than the middle toe, compressed, anteriorly scutate, posteriorly edged; toes, scutellate above, inferiorly granulate; second and fourth nearly equal, the hind toe almost as long as the middle one, third and fourth united as far as the second joint; claws long, slender, acute, arcuate, much compressed.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

The second plate exhibits the shell at its full growth.
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Like a flower, too, Though the tangible petals are numbered and comptable, the subtle perfume eludes the sense and is inexhaustible.
— from Hints for Lovers by Arnold Haultain