Grey drizzling weather at Marseilles, a rolling sea, cold winds and general depression as the keynote of the voyage, to be followed by a late landing on a winter evening, the bright green of the hills dim with rain, the houses looking as grey and chill as ourselves standing forlornly under umbrellas on dripping decks, and almost wet through in the short run from the steamer to a carriage; for a downpour in Algiers is a downpour, just as sunshine is really sunshine, and not the faint flickering of light and shade we sometimes mistake for it at home.
— from Algeria and Tunis by Frances E. Nesbitt

I answer that, It was the opinion of some that all corporeal forms are derived from spiritual substances, which we call the angels.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Bainbridge in his advance loses his lateen yard by a shot, and can only support the attacking column from a distance.
— from The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes by James Russell Soley

I saw the airplane coming from a distance.
— from Fighting France by Stéphane Lauzanne

We have taken counsel, subscribed to a common fund, and decided that this time we will take the header into the additional outlay.
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse