Prince Andrew and the officer rode up, looked at the entrenchment, and went on again.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But in the meantime it was necessary to pass the night under the open sky, for the country was completely deserted, and nowhere within sight was there trace of a human dwelling-place--only broad tracts of rough uncultivated land, and rolling hills of wild heath and tangled wood.
— from The Crimson Sign A Narrative of the Adventures of Mr. Gervase Orme, Sometime Lieutenant in Mountjoy's Regiment of Foot by S. R. (Samuel Robert) Keightley

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— from When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland

M. Brunetiere has poured out his irony upon the critics who believe that their own reactions upon literature are anything to us in the presence of the works to which they have thrilled.
— from The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Puffer Howes