In those days when the comparatively recent discovery of electricity and other kindred mysteries of Nature seemed to open paths into the region of miracle, it was not unusual for the love of science to rival the love of woman in its depth and absorbing energy.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ANT: Continuity, rectilinearity, directness, prolongation.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

And on the left hand, or south side, even by the gate and wall of the city, runneth down a lane to the Tower hill; the south part whereof is called Woodroffe lane, and out of this lane toward the west a street called Hart street.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

With us it appears as a charge in the arms of the towns of Chatham, Ramsgate, Devonport, &c.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

LXXIII., Anti-Nicene Christian Library), “who require us to bear arms for the commonwealth, and to slay men, we can reply: ‘Do not those who are priests at certain shrines, and those who attend on certain gods, as you account them, keep their hands free from blood, that they may with hands unstained and free from human blood offer the appointed sacrifices to your [p. 15] gods; and even when war is upon you, you never enlist the priests in the army.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

In a word, as Seneca concludes, Religio Deum colit, superstitio destruit , superstition destroys, but true religion honours God.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Also , Comptes rendus de la Société de Biologie, 1872, ser. 5, II: 77–81.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"There, now!" cried Rebecca, "didn't Si Wilkins' boy Sam say he seen a comet in broad daylight last June?"
— from The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye

Even the few statues that had been stored in the low attic of the Inn were sold to the Americans; and the old couple were made happy at the knowledge that, at last, they were provided for in old age, through the sale of the objects that they could readily do without.
— from Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

"It is cold," remarked Dean, by way of opening the conversation.
— from Dean Dunham; Or, the Waterford Mystery by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

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— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But peace to the unhappy one, he is gone to his rest; the death-like face is no longer occasionally seen timidly and mournfully looking for a moment through the window-pane upon thy market-place, quiet and pretty D——; the hind in thy neighbourhood no longer at evening-fall views, and starts as he views, the dark lathy figure moving beneath the hazels and the elders of shadowy lanes, or by the side of murmuring trout-streams, and no longer at early dawn does the sexton of the old church reverently doff his hat, as, supported by some kind friend, the death-stricken creature totters along the church-path to that mouldering edifice with the low roof, enclosing a spring of sanatory waters, built and devoted to some saint, if [Pg 394] the legend over the door be true, by the daughter of an East Anglian king."
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

It had unwound from its reel of light and moisture a green ribbon, that lay along its shores miles and miles away in the wilderness; and the birds slyly bathed themselves in its waters; and now and then a small fish came rushing down with the speed of an arrow, just returning from his winter quarters to the river, probably to enter his name upon the great piscatorial roll preparatory to summer service.
— from The Puddleford Papers; Or, Humors of the West by Henry Hiram Riley

The inequality of opportunity in the various valleys of the coastal region depends in large part also upon inequality of river discharge.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

It will all come out right, as you say, but it will be because we will make it come right, dear."
— from The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Francis Hopkinson Smith