In one section of the Malpighiaceae the closed flowers, according to A. de Jussieu, are still further modified, for the five stamens which stand opposite to the sepals are all aborted, a sixth stamen standing opposite to a petal being alone developed; and this stamen is not present in the ordinary flowers of this species; the style is aborted; and the ovaria are reduced from three to two.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

And, in earnest, it had been a very happy death, for the weakness of my understanding deprived me of the faculty of discerning, and that of my body of the sense of feeling; I was suffering myself to glide away so sweetly and after so soft and easy a manner, that I scarce find any other action less troublesome than that was.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Robert, that is all very well for other men, for men who treat life simply as a sordid speculation; but not for you, Robert, not for you.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

The different grants [6] appended will show this variety, and furnish additional proof that this, and all similar systems of policy, must be much indebted to chance for the shape they ultimately take.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

At midnight, when there was a moon, I sometimes met with hounds in my path prowling about the woods, which would skulk out of my way, as if afraid, and stand silent amid the bushes till I had passed.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Sophia Pietrovna, nervously sang romantic songs, with a kind of half-intoxication, and as if jeering at another's sorrow she chose sad, melancholy songs that spoke of lost hopes, of the past, of old age....
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Thus fenc't, and as they thought, thir shame in part Coverd, but not at rest or ease of Mind, 1120 They sate them down to weep, nor onely Teares Raind at thir Eyes, but high Winds worse within Began to rise, high Passions, Anger, Hate, FULL-SIZE -- Medium-Size Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and shook sore Thir inward State of Mind, calme Region once And full of Peace, now tost and turbulent: For Understanding rul'd not, and the Will Heard not her lore, both in subjection now To sensual Appetite, who from beneathe Usurping over sovran Reason claimd 1130 Superior sway: From thus distemperd brest, Adam, estrang'd in look and alterd stile, Speech intermitted thus to Eve renewd.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Behold him landed, careless and asleep, From all the eluded dangers of the deep; Lo where he lies, amidst a shining store Of brass, rich garments, and refulgent ore; And bears triumphant to his native isle A prize more worth than Ilion's noble spoil."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

After that rebuff, they hardly cared to circulate the bit of news any further in the sophomore class, which, it must be confessed, had the reputation of being run by a clique of the most arrogant and snobbish set of girls Wellington College had ever known.
— from Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Nell Speed

Dark and neglected locks overshadowed his brow, and a sadness Somewhat beyond his years on his face was legibly written.
— from Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[176] Hävernick is another able and sincere supporter; but Droysen truly says ( Gesch.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

In the interior of the egg there soon appears a single spherical body, regarded by Ganin as a cell ( fig.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Nu’mán urged on his horse to overtake it, and galloped away at such speed that he was cut off from his retinue.
— from The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá