It was a most extraordinary thing (she said to Mrs Boffin); she was foolishly susceptible of the power of beauty, but it wasn't altogether that; she never had been able to resist a natural grace of manner, but it wasn't altogether that; it was more than that, and there was no name for the indescribable extent and degree to which she was captivated by this charming girl.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Virchow doubted whether the parts put together by Dubois (the head of a femur, two molar teeth, and the top of a skull) belonged to the same individual at all, disputed the calculations as to the large capacity of the skull, placed against Dubois' very striking and clever drawing of the curves of the skull-outline, which illustrated, with the help of the Pithecanthropus, the gradual transition from the skull of a monkey to that of man, his own drawing, according to which the Pithecanthropus curve simply coincides with that of a gibbon ( Hylobates ), and asserted that the remains discovered were those of a species of gibbon, refusing even to admit that they represented a new genus of monkeys.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

The better to secure the ruin, a new gate of antique workmanship, with iron ornaments, is put up.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

If it has come it is because the individual and the rest of the world were "of such a sort" that the revival and new growth of interest could take its rise with the provision of the new instrumentality.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

The next question I asked myself was, what is law and the real and necessary ground of civil government?
— from Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt

We, on the other hand, bivouac in the rain and never get out on pass.
— from A Close Encounter: The Marine Landing on Tinian by Richard Harwood

It is only in the management of inferior and of allegorical personages that the faults alluded to can be perceived; and even here the rich and noble genius of the poet has mastered many of his difficulties.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Latterly the naturalists of North America have been very active in their researches, and no genus of animals has rewarded them so well as the marmots—unless, perhaps, it may be the squirrels.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

Her eyes were glowing as she finished, and her elusive beauty—the beauty of spirit, not of flesh—gave her features the rare and noble grace of a marble Diana.
— from The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow