[Pg 39] ski (1880) found the light of lophin oxidized in alcoholic caustic alkali, examined with a two-prism spectroscope, to give a continuous spectrum, brightest at E , with the red and violet ends lacking.
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey

For my part, I have reason to believe their opinions and inclinations in that respect are various, exactly like those of other men; and if they lean more to the crown than I and than many of you think we ought, we must remember that he who aims at another's life is not to be surprised, if he flies into any sanctuary that will receive him.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

To watch every thought that passed within him, lest it should by the slightest sign betray him; to regulate and veil every look and every word he spoke to her; never for a second to forget that these other persons were actual and dangerous, not merely the insignificant and grotesque shadows that they seemed.
— from The Dark Flower by John Galsworthy

At some times I should have been sorry for this, as one does not like to be obliged to refuse any very eligible looking man who may be introduced to one.
— from A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 1 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty