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various intensity enveloping the human structure
The fact seems to me of great significance, as tending to confirm the opinion that assigns its source to the nerve organization, and it goes far to establish Dr. Richardson's important discovery of a nerve atmosphere of various intensity enveloping the human structure.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

valuable in economic theory has so
162 CHAPTER XVII THE THEORY OF VALUE AND THE THEORY OF PRICES Price and Preis —Price broadened to include all relations between values, whether money be involved or not—History of price-concept in English economics—Distinction between prices and values—Generalization of notion of price—Measurement of beliefs, etc., in terms of money—"Qualitative analysis" and "quantitative analysis"—Great bulk of economic theory, and virtually all that is valid and valuable in economic theory, has so far been in theory of prices, and not in theory of value—Methods of price analysis—Abstract units of value—Price theory and practical problems
— from Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson

Vincent I expected to have seen
“Where are your flowers, Julia?” asked Mrs. Vincent: “I expected to have seen a bow-pot almost as big as yourself.”
— from Julia and the Pet-Lamb; or, Good Temper and Compassion Rewarded by Anonymous

valley instantly echoed to his summons
A clear blast from the valley instantly echoed to his summons, and the next moment a group of men and dogs were seen hurrying up the slope.
— from A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards


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