21 The fields were swept with the golden light of the sun, and the heavy foliage of the trees sang through every note of green.
— from The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs

[Pg 110] Here sounds the essential note of generous natures.
— from Browning's Heroines by Ethel Colburn Mayne

He said they exhibited not only genius but taste.
— from An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females by Catharine Esther Beecher

Wishing to show the electrical nature of gun-cotton, he has been known to lay his watch upon the table, balance on it a slender piece of wood, and, charging a morsel of the gun-cotton by drawing it along his coat sleeve, cause the wood to revolve towards the electric fibres.
— from Michael Faraday Third Edition, with Portrait by J. H. (John Hall) Gladstone

The death of the Meriah was supposed to ensure not only good crops, but also “immunity from all disease and accident.”
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen

"In good faith, neighbour Stagman ," answered Scapegrace, "so long as this burden sticks to my back, I shall have no peace or rest, by night or by day, for I know not how long I may be left at large; and men say that, even now, one Gripeman hath a writ out against me, at the suit of Mr Legality, and that I shall be hauled away to prison incontinently.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various