Because in it there is a certain spirit which is more subtle than air, and by reason of its thickness and rarefaction, seeks a larger space, filling the hollow room of the heart; hence the dilating and opening of the heart, and because the heart is earthly the thrusting and moving ceasing, its parts are at rest, tending downwards.
— from The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

Then a rifle shot, a long, shrill whistle, shouts and the sudden thud of many racing hoofs.
— from Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure by Jackson Gregory

Now it was, that the true church fled into the wilderness, that is, from superstition and violence, to a retired, solitary, and lonely state: hidden, and as it were, out of sight of men, though not out of the world.
— from A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn

The photographs of tangential and radial sections are life size.
— from Wood and Forest by William Noyes