But Rembrandt improved upon the Italian method of using shadow.
— from The Mentor: Rembrandt, Vol. 4, Num. 20, Serial No. 120, December 1, 1916 by John Charles Van Dyke

It is the same whether we regard the action of the intellect upon the individual man, or upon society.
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron

Therefore it is that St. John says, "I heard a voice from Heaven saying, 'Come forth, my people, out of her'"—and that is out of Babylon—"come forth, my people, out of her"—that is out of this inverted mode of using spiritual power—"come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins and that ye shall receive not of her plague."
— from The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

The truth is," Margaret owned up, "she and I were not specially interested in it." "Oh!
— from Her Husband's Purse by Helen Reimensnyder Martin

This condition, rather than impassable mountains or unmelted snows, was the chief obstacle to a thorough exploration of the Upper Yellowstone.
— from The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive by Hiram Martin Chittenden

One afternoon he took me with him into the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, and threading his way without hesitation through its maze of unsavoury slums, paused before a narrow three-storeyed house overlooking a stagnant backwater.
— from Malvina of Brittany by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome