From the vine-leaves of that archivolt, though there is no direct imitation of nature in them, but on the contrary a studious subjection to architectural purpose more particularly to be noticed hereafter, we may yet receive the same kind of pleasure which we have in seeing true vine-leaves and wreathed branches traced upon golden light; its stars upon their azure ground ought to make us remember, as its builder remembered, the stars that ascend and fall in the great arch of the sky: and I believe that stars, and boughs, and leaves, and bright colors are everlastingly lovely, and to be by all men beloved; and, moreover, that church walls grimly seared with squared lines, are not better nor nobler things than these.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

[Pg 302] But Webster, with the ever-present memory of that despairing face on the bridge, and the constant anxiety for the unhappy girl lying in St. Phillip’s Hospital, nigh unto death, had felt it was impossible for him to encounter the gay and lively sallies of the actress.
— from A Country Sweetheart by Dora Russell

of the American Volunteers; his appearance; mode of warfare; commits outrages in the back-country; character of his forces; rapidity of his movements; approaches the mountains; makes ready to receive the backwoodsmen; rallies the loyalists; halts at King's Mountain; his confidence in the bayonet; attacked by the mountaineers; at the battle of King's Mountain; his reckless bravery; his death; Field, Colonel John, serves under Gen. Lewis, I; starts off on his own account; despatched to the front; his timely arrival; restores the battle; death of; Fincastle men, the, from the Holston, Clinch, Watauga, and New River settlements, I; commanded by Col. William Christian; delay of; most of them too late to join in the battle of the Great Kanawha; reach the Great Kanawha after the battle; First explorers, I; Fleming, Col. William, I; serves under Gen. Lewis; ordered to advance; rallies the backwoodsmen; Florida, the winning of, I; Floyd, John, I; leads a party of surveyors to Kentucky; descends the Kanawha; surveys for Washington and Henry; goes down the Ohio; his party splits up at mouth of the Kentucky; arrives at Falls of the Ohio; explores the land; reaches Clinch River; appointed colonel, II; defeated at Long Run; with Clark among the Miamis; ravages the country; killed by Indians; Forests, the, I; extended from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, penetrated by hunters; Forest Warfare, merciless ferocity of, I; Fort Pitt, I; claimed by Virginia; Lord Dunmore's army advances to; Fort Rutledge.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

In some of the species the carina is added to almost equally at both ends; in S. ornatum it grows but little at the upper end, and to a varying degree in different individuals according to their age; in S. rutilum the umbo is at the apex, and there is consequently no upward growth; lastly, in S. villosum the carina widening much from the apex to the basal margin, grows exclusively downwards, and a portion of the apex projects freely,—characters all common to the carina in the genus Pollicipes.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

"Wishing," he says, "to portray one young girl of uncommonly good looks, I separated her from the rest, gave her a favorable position, and adjusted the lens, surrounded all the while by a crowd of people behind and beside me, the children cheering, the women most ardently attentive, the men benevolently smiling.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 Volume LV by Various

About five o'clock Ken had unexpected good luck in shape of a small sand-bar cut off from the mainland, and therefore free of cattle-tracks.
— from Ken Ward in the Jungle by Zane Grey

Before it he wandered, around it he wandered, like an uneasy ghost, lost in speculation about the hidden face, and fearfully impatient about the flight of time.
— from The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming