“It is a case of distance lending enchantment to the view,” Miller laughed; “our illusions are gone.”
— from In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

It is now desirable that we should pause in our career of destruction long enough to look back upon what we have recently accomplished in the total extinction of species, and also note what we have blocked out for the immediate future.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

As the mare scuffed off down the road, amid a cloud of dust, Lucy entered the store.
— from The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett

Fohat, in his capacity of Divine Love (Eros), the electric power of affinity and sympathy, is shown, allegorically, trying to bring the pure Spirit, the Ray inseparable from the One Absolute, into union with the Soul, the two constituting in Man the Monad, and in Nature the first link between the ever-unconditioned and the manifested.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky