If the several formations in these regions have not been deposited during the same exact periods—a formation in one region often corresponding with a blank interval in the other—and if in both regions the species have gone on slowly changing during the accumulation of the several formations and during the long intervals of time between them; in this case the several formations in the two regions could be arranged in the same order, in accordance with the general succession of the forms of life, and the order would falsely appear to be strictly parallel; nevertheless the species would not all be the same in the apparently corresponding stages in the two regions.
— 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

First, he took a stick from his shoulder, and blew into it, and then something flew into my face which tickled me terribly; then he breathed once more into the stick, and it flew into my nose like lightning and hail; when I was quite close, he drew a white rib out of his side, and he beat me so with it that I was all but left lying dead."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Listen, Natalie: when you realize how serious and responsible a business it is you will be the first to thank me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I grant that outlaws themselves do this one amongst another: but it is without receiving these as the innate laws of nature.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

The enemy's Army, before it is sensibly weakened, may retreat to the opposite side of the country, or even quite outside of it.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

But Archidamus, the Lacedaemonian king, came forward, who had the reputation of being at once a wise and a moderate man, and made the following speech: "I have not lived so long, Lacedaemonians, without having had the experience of many wars, and I see those among you of the same age as myself, who will not fall into the common misfortune of longing for war from inexperience or from a belief in its advantage and its safety.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

‘If you please, sir,’ I said, when we had accomplished about the same distance as before, ‘is it far?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

A secretary of an embassy, whom I knew some years after, told me that a paid informer, with two other witnesses, also, doubtless, in the pay of this grand tribunal, had declared that I was guilty of only believing in the devil, as if this absurd belief, if it were possible, did not necessarily connote a belief in God!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If there is any blame, it is attached to me, but when Strong suggested the prank, I could not help but think that if we could make fast to you without your knowing it, that such a feat would go pretty far [170] toward proving the value and efficiency of the Lockyer submarine in war-time.”
— from The Dreadnought Boys on a Submarine by John Henry Goldfrap

It is the more appropriate because it is expressed in the words he actually uses; which certainly do not include the word "proletarian."
— from Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Well, he took the paper back, and burned it in the little fire by which I was sitting facing Ranjoor Singh.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

It is just as in any other case of induction; we say, 'Because this is true in twenty or thirty or a hundred instances (as the case may be), which we can test, —therefore it is generally or universally true'; we do not say, because this is true in these instances, and because it is also generally or universally true, therefore it is so!
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

"You are both included in it.
— from In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman

She had heard of witchcraft, and believed in it, like her master, and all the wise men of the colony.
— from Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

not a bit iv it; sure was'nt I aitin the best iv cauld beef, an' dhrinkin' the best iv ale, down in the house-keeper's parlour, they seem mighty nice kind of people, an' there was wan of thim with the quarest cap."
— from Kate Vernon: A Tale. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. Alexander

Pg 17 Greek text IV The so-called blood-making 29 faculty in the veins, then, as well as all the other faculties, fall within the category of relative concepts; primarily because the faculty is the cause of the activity, but also, accidentally, because it is the cause of the effect.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

As the seconds passed, all but insupportable in their tedious slowness, she stood rigid and tense, waiting.
— from The Bells of San Juan by Jackson Gregory