He appears to have been almost wholly indifferent to food; in sleep he was sparing; his frame was very small, and if this appeared to be a reason against his popular impressiveness as a preacher, it was a means of his amazing agility.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

"But, Cyril,"—unsteadily,—"you will go abroad at once, for a little while, until I have time to decide where in the future I shall hide my head."
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

It is one of the last of the summer birds to arrive, May being generally well advanced before we hear its harsh yet pleasant scream of “swee ree,” as it swerves in rapid flight round the cottage or belfry which is to form its summer home.
— from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis (John Lewis) Bonhote

In the following spring my Father re-assumed his habitual occupation in command of the Fame; but the great draught of water and somewhat sharp build of the ship, rendering the tide-harbour, to which, in this first instance, she had resorted, both inconvenient and unsafe, her port was again changed for Hull, to which, with but a moderate cargo, she returned.
— from Memorials of the Sea: My Father Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by William Scoresby

Poor Will is in a bad way indeed; the fever is so high that the doctor declares his life to be in hourly danger.
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice

"If she tells me to walk in the fire, I shall have to go."
— from Honey-Sweet by Edna Henry Lee Turpin

In view, no doubt, of the high moral tendency of most of the comedies of Molière, who in Tartuffe, for instance, satirises hypocrisy almost as effectively, if with a less palpable directness than does Miss [Pg 122] Corelli herself, and in view of the essentially religious or at any rate mystical spirit that animates so many of the poems of the author of Les Fleurs de Mai, it must be reluctantly confessed that Miss Corelli is more impressive as a moralist and as a psychologist than as a woman of letters and an expert in French literature.
— from Modernities by Horace Barnett Samuel

If he had been enabled to penetrate but a very little way into the future, I suspect, his thoughts and his emotions would have been of a quite different order.
— from The Yoke of the Thorah by Henry Harland