In the field of Buddhism we have a luxuriant growth of new and strange species of colossal weeds that overtower and seem to have choked out whatever furze of original Buddhism there was in Japan, while in the domain of {141} Confucianism there is a barren heath.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Comparing tables 45 to 54, we see that recessive parents are characterized by a low grade of nostril and they, of course, tend to produce offspring with a low grade.
— from Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl by Charles Benedict Davenport

Two admirable little girls of nine and fourteen installed [155] themselves as handmaids and hostesses of the castle, and might be seen all day carrying water to the cauldron, making tea, giving hospitality to visitors—their first free service to Ireland.
— from The Old Irish World by Alice Stopford Green

Some are large, with portions of forest and portions of cleared land; some are mere rocks, with a little green or none, and inhabited by sea-birds, which fly and flap about hoarsely.
— from Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is difficult to think a loving governor of nations arranging one set of cannibals to eat, and another set of human beings to be eaten by their fellow-men.
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

This world suits them well enough, whether there be a living God or not; and as for the next world, they will be sure to find some preacher or confessor who will set their minds easy about it.
— from The Water of Life, and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

He was a grown-up man and a very clever one, while she was only a little girl, of no account whatever.
— from A Sunny Little Lass by Evelyn Raymond

But presently he beckoned to Pamela, now a lovely girl of nineteen, and, putting his arm around her neck, kissed her for the first time in years.
— from The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine

However this may be, among the Norwegian poets and novelists various qualities often meet together in striking opposition; wild and fantastic imagination stands beside an exact realism and a loving grasp of nature; a tendency to mysticism and symbol beside a healthy naturalism.
— from The New Spirit Third Edition by Havelock Ellis