Perhaps he had half known it before; anyhow, he took in freshly now that the large acceptance did not quite include Marchese Peppino.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
They looked on it as a narrow and obsolete virtue, useful enough perhaps in rude times, but a hindrance to rational progress now; the modern virtue was humanity, the idea of which had just freshly burst upon their age like a new power.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae