NO GOOD PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN Probably the reader has seen physiognomies (often old farmers, sea-captains, and such) that, behind their homeliness, or even ugliness, held superior points so subtle, yet so palpable, making the real life of their faces almost as impossible to depict as a wild perfume or fruit-taste, or a passionate tone of the living voice—and such was Lincoln's face, the peculiar color, the lines of it, the eyes, mouth, expression.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And in art we have the same play of opposing factors, straight lines and curves, light and dark, warm and cold colour oppose each other.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

It is successful mostly when used against some particular object or for some definite purpose of the moment.
— from Bolshevism: A Curse & Danger to the Workers by H. W. (Henry William) Lee

As to Courteney, Mary found some pretext or other for sending him back again to his prison in the Tower.
— from Queen Elizabeth Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

She could see distinctly for a while the stately pieces of old furniture standing in their places against the walls.
— from Jane Field: A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Having agreed yesterday with the apothecary [Pg 98] of the place (to whose shop I go almost daily with some prescription or other from Sir Humphry, who often varies his medicines) to ascend one of the nearer Alps, we started for the summit of the Zimitz early this morning: we crossed over hills and dales, through woods and fields, till we came to the foot of the mountain, on the top of which we proposed eating our dinner, which we carried in our pockets.
— from Journal of a Tour in the Years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst Accompanying the Late Sir Humphrey Davy by J. J. Tobin

It would therefore be incorrect to consider the trisilicates as normal salts of silica, for they contain the largest proportion of silica; it is much better to admit another formula with a smaller proportion of oxygen for silica, and it then appears that the majority of minerals are normal or slightly basic salts, whilst some of the minerals predominating in nature contain an excess of silica—that is, belong to the order of acid salts.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Our two igloos, Henson's and mine, were on a small piece of old floe, separated by a crack and a low pressure ridge, a few yards away, from a large floe lying to the west of us.
— from The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary