You are perfect to a letter, and rehearse it charmingly—much better than Melfort.
— from One Touch of Nature: A Petite Drama, in One Act by Benjamin Webster

In the first place, Bella had opened the anonymous letter and read its contents, to which the reader is referred.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

Though theology, as little as religion itself, can draw exclusively from or rest entirely on reason—for this would be fatal to its very idea—still it is not only allowable, but even highly desirable, that theology, in its practical application and method, should be thoroughly rational.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

Guy scrambled to his feet, looking none the worse for his accident of the night before, and when he had dipped his head in the horse-trough a few times, he felt as sprightly and vigorous as though he had never told a lie, and received in consequence the hardest fall of his life.
— from Guy Harris, the Runaway by Harry Castlemon

No sooner was I separated from her than the charm dissolved, and all my thoughts, like evening clouds that appear luminous and rich in color until the sun has set, began to be darkened with a mysterious gloom.
— from A Crystal Age by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson