After all, the most romantic union can hardly embark with surer or fairer elements of happiness.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

( a ) Effect of temperature on a stationary plate; N, normal rate of growth; C, retarded rate under cold; H, enhanced rate under warmth; ( b ) record on moving plate, where diminished slope of curve denotes retarded rate under cold (Magnification 2,000 times.)
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose

The lofty old pulpit, with its sounding-board and curiously carved oak panels, is a pretty feature of the interior; and the chancel window, we notice, is of rather uncommon character, having elegant flowing tracery, and minute sculptured heads outside at the springings of the hoodmould.
— from Nooks and Corners of Shropshire by H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins

Not long afterwards, a regiment of Pennsylvania riflemen, under Colonel Hand, engaged an equal number of Hessian chasseurs, with some advantage.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

A critic in the July number of the 'Quarterly Review,' while writing "in the presence of these lovely temples, domes, and colonnades under the burning American sky which adds a light and a transparency to all it rests upon," cannot help echoing the regret that this vision of beauty is but for a season, and 57 expressing the hope that some one of the American money kings "may perpetuate his name on marble, by restoring, on the edge of this immense capital, amid parks and waters, that great central square which, were it only built of enduring materials, would stand without a rival in modern architecture."
— from Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature, Art and Education in Canada by John George Bourinot

“It all sounds very black,” he remarked urbanely, continuing his examination of his finger-nails.
— from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Of more intrinsic strength, but not at first concerned, strong works had been thrown up on either [pg 42] side of the North River, upon commanding heights eight miles above New York, to dispute the passage of ships.
— from The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan