[51] This is beautiful, but is evidently borrowed from the great philosophical poet’s “Te, Dea, te fugiunt ventei, te nubila coeli, Adventumque tuum.”
— from Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

This clearly proves that during the revolving movement the internodes become bowed in every direction.
— from The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin

Lord Farrer and his colleagues, while agreeing that it was impossible to alter the taxation of Ireland so long as the Union lasted, agreed that additional local expenditure in Ireland could not be regarded as a set-off to undue taxation, not only because such a doctrine was inherently fallacious on economic grounds, and would hardly be listened to in the case of any other country than Ireland, but because Irish expenditure was subjected to no proper means of control.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

Its range is largely south of the international boundary, but it extends into southern Arizona where the best development of the species occurs about 5,000 feet above the sea on grassy slopes.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

In the field before us a mass of broken marble; on the right the creamy columns of the Parthenon; on the left the irregular but beautiful Ionic Erechtheum.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner