The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I hope to join you there by your tea-time in the afternoon!—'So, you're in very good time, child, an hour or two hence, to answer all your important pre-engagements!'—which will be better than going home, and returning with you; as it will be six miles difference to me; and I know the good company will excuse my dress on this occasion.—'Very true; any dress is good enough, I'm sure, for such company as admire thee, child, for a companion, in thy ruined state!—Jackey, Jackey, mind, mind, again!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Thou shalt light my candle; Thou, O Lord my God, wilt enlighten my darkness.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I cannot, however, let this opportunity pass without expressing my deep obligations to Dr. Hooker, who, for the last fifteen years, has aided me in every possible way by his large stores of knowledge and his excellent judgment.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Dreadful to hear, Captain Nemo was even more dreadful to see.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

When he beholds that picture he will fall violently in love with it and go off into a dead faint, and for her sake he will encounter many dangers; you must guard him from this.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

And here, crowing fearfully, with his eyes starting out of his head, appeared to be contending with every mortal disease incidental to poultry.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Trojans and Greeks now gather round the slain; The war renews, the warriors bleed again: As o'er their prey rapacious wolves engage, Man dies on man, and all is blood and rage.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But, unfortunately for his theory, the dull red glare above us, which every moment deepened in intensity, was evidently the reflection of earthly, not heavenly fire.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

But Keith, who had interfered to prevent the Queen from being publicly disgraced, now interfered again, with even more determination, to mitigate her punishment.
— from A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

True, he was saving carfare, but he observed dryly that he was expending many dollars' worth of energy—to say nothing of shoe leather.
— from Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Then the husband blew his nose with discomfort, and, her attention attracted, his good wife exclaimed, "My dear, you have a cold, let us go to bed," and they went.
— from From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India by Arthur Louis Keyser

The precedent of Edgehill was followed, with even more disastrous results.
— from Battles of English History by H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George

All this was exciting me dreadfully, and it was only by the greatest effort that I did not thrust rudely forward.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

For soth, or in my God: ther be fayre tidynges, ye may go whan En mon Dieu, vas les belles nouuelles, uous uous poués en allér shall please you.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

On the same day too I left the ancient, worthy community of Prague--in which I had passed my youth, and where God willing, I will end my days--on a wide and weary wandering."
— from Gabriel: A Story of the Jews in Prague by S. (Salomon) Kohn

O, if we had spiritual organs, to see and hear things now invisible and inaudible to us, we should behold the whole air filled with the departing souls of that vast multitude which every moment dies,--should behold them streaming up like thin vapors heaven-ward, and hear the startling blast of the archangel's trump sounding incessant through the universe and proclaiming the awful judgment day.
— from Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was even more difficult to get this beast down.
— from The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey