“And then, my lord,” continued Rochefort, “you understand that to emerge from the Bastile in order to enter Vincennes is only to change one’s prison.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

They looked like a row of lofty slabs with their upper ends tapered to the shape of a carving-knife point; in fact, the early voyager, ignorant of their great height, might have mistaken them for a rusty old rank of piles that had sagged this way and that out of the perpendicular.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Winged troughs of wood were undoubtedly in the mind of the man who made the earthen vessel illustrated on the next page, found in an ancient grave in Arkansas.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

If he succeeded, he would give us the exact visual impression of the objects themselves, but art, as we have already agreed, must give us not the mere reproductions of things but a quickened sense of capacity for realising them.
— from The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance With An Index To Their Works by Bernard Berenson

vi., 15 {5}, I wrote the German words under the English in case you should prefer the notation as originally composed, and choose to add a word or a syllable here and there in the English version, in order to give it the same rhythm as in German.
— from The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah' by F. G. (Frederick George) Edwards

Much of the greatness of his political pamphlets and speeches and of their enduring value is owing to the fact that his arguments are based on a sense of oneness and continuity, of oneness in the social organism and of continuity in the spirit which animates it.
— from Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline F. E. (Caroline Frances Eleanor) Spurgeon

s to control the reflexes of evacuation, and gradually comes to have control over the breathing movements, so as to hold his breath or breathe rapidly or deeply at will, and to expire vigorously in order to blow out a match.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

"No," she replied, "if I'd had any particular tenderness for Geoffrey it certainly wouldn't have had the least effect beyond making me more sorry for him, but, as it happens, he never did anything to encourage vain ideas of the kind in me."
— from Thurston of Orchard Valley by Harold Bindloss

The endlessly various interpretations of this one ideal and of the nature of the saving process are due to the wealth of life and to the imposing multitude of motives and of experiences that the religious consciousness has to consider.
— from The Sources of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce