The rarity of such days, even in our clear atmosphere so superior to that of England, is not generally known.
— from Mars and Its Mystery by Edward Sylvester Morse

More recently, the tide has completely turned, until the danger now imminent is that of extravagant if not groundless exultation, so that this Fair would be treated somewhat differently if I were now to write about it.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

The people, however, who fashioned such implements hardly can have been so far advanced in civilisation as the wandering tribes of Esquimaux in Northern Greenland.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

That our perceptions mean BEINGS, rattles that are there whether we hold them in our hands or not, becomes an interpretation so luminous of what happens to us that, once employed, it never gets forgotten.
— from The Meaning of Truth by William James

“There is an introductory outline, then after a chapter on the geography of the Balkans and its influence on the politics of the Near East, the history of the Ottoman empire is narrated, giving much space to Napoleon and Greek independence, until the Crimean war.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various