More significant is a sudden overawed realisation of the great universe (setting pause to his own run round in play), one door to a quick perception in the child's devout spirit of analogy binding truths unseen by sense: "Is this world always going round, now ?"
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

These habits of restraint recur in political society, and are singularly favorable both to the tranquillity of the people and to the durability of the institutions it has established.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Having less regard for consistency, the House of Representatives recorded its conviction, by close votes, that Congress could appropriate money to construct roads and canals, but had not the power to construct them.
— from Union and Democracy by Allen Johnson

His speaking to himself, or rather repeating, is a common habit with studious men accustomed to deep thinking; and, in consequence of their being thus rapt, they will even laugh by themselves, if the subject which they are musing on is a merry one.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

cried Allegra, laughing, as she pointed to the hedge of red roses in front of them, and the clusters of creamy bloom hanging over the verandah.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

ON THE MEXICAN WAR REPORT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, REPORT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, REMARKS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MARCH 29, 1848.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Again, when he hears from her sister that Kitty's affection for Vronsky was really very slight, that her only real regret is the alienation from him, he will not even call at the house, and this though he knows that the whole Vronsky entanglement was due mainly to his own eccentric behaviour.
— from Tolstoy by Lilian Winstanley

Crossing the dividing watershed, the party for some time travelled along the heads of rivers running into the Gulf of Carpentaria, finding it a great improvement in every way—thence they crossed back on to the waters of the east coast once more, and their horses still giving in, one by one, they fell back on them as an article of diet.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

These habits of restraint recur in political society, and are singularly favorable both to the tranquillity of the people and the durability of the institutions it has established.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville