As weak, yet as trustful also; For the whole year long I see All the wonders of faithful Nature Still worked for the love of me; Winds wander, and dews drip earthward, Rain falls, suns rise and set, Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

The coral tinge in Rona's cheeks was, as Doris Deane enviously remarked, "almost too good to look natural", and her blue eyes with the big pupils and the little dark rims round the iris shone like twinkling stars when she laughed.
— from For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil

As weak, yet as trustful also; For the whole year long I see All the wonders of faithful Nature Still worked for the love of me; 45 Winds wander, and dews drip earthward, Rain falls, suns rise and set, Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
— from The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, Ph.D. by James Russell Lowell

Luther does not seem to notice that hatred of God is an essential part of the condition of those who are damned (“ damnari et reprobari ad infernum ”).
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar