The work of these first soldiers and missionaries established the limits and character of Spanish rule as it was to remain for 250 years.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Shortage of Air From Cape Horn to the Amazon The Devilfish The Gulf Stream In Latitude 47° 24' and Longitude 17° 28' A Mass Execution The Last Words of Captain Nemo Conclusion Introduction "The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us," admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

2. BEASTS AND BEAST CHARMS All wild animals, more especially the larger and more dangerous species, are credited in Malay folklore with human or (occasionally) superhuman powers.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The axioms in mathematics, the principles of the relations of being, the laws of æsthetics, and most of all the whole system of principles pertaining to morals and religion, standing, as they do, a series of mental affirmations, which all mankind, except the Limitists, qualify as necessary and universal, compel assent to the proposition, that there must be a faculty different in kind from the Sense
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Truly, the world hath as many eyes to look upon a man withal as there are spots on a toad; so, with what pair of eyes thou regardest me lieth entirely with thine own self.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

I wanted to carry you back a generation or two, and give you by indirection a moment's glance—and also to ventilate a very earnest and I believe authentic opinion, nay conviction, of that time, the fruit of the interviews I have mention'd, and of questioning and cross-questioning, clench'd by my best information since, that Thomas Paine had a noble personality, as exhibited in presence, face, voice, dress, manner, and what may be call'd his atmosphere and magnetism, especially the later years of his life.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Hither by and by come Sir Richard Ford and also Mrs. Esther, that lived formerly with my Lady Batten, now well married to a priest, come to see my Lady.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

One more assault might extinguish the last spark of vitality which is, every moment, ready to die.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

In all my efforts to learn to read my mother shared fully my ambition, and sympathized with me and aided me in every way that she could.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

We arrived at home without a moment of sickness, or any mishap, except the loss of one poor fellow, a slave of the chief man, who died of jungle-fever.
— from Siam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, &c. by N. A. (Noah A.) McDonald

"Pauline, I used to think I'd never care much for any man, except to like it for him to like me.
— from The Cost by David Graham Phillips

I am not qualified to examine, and I am not disposed to believe, their distant voyages to the Persian Gulf, or the Cape of Good Hope; but their ancestors might equal the labors and success of the present race, and the sphere of their navigation might extend from the Isles of Japan to the Straits of Malacca, the pillars, if we may apply that name, of an Oriental Hercules.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

but this amounts to a miracle," exclaimed the lieutenant.
— from Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng

He bounded down the stairs, and in another minute entered the large room where all Dr Rowlands’s bo
— from Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

We reached the conclusion a missile entered the left—the right posterior inferior portion—— Mr. Specter .
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Many are epiphytic on other algae, more especially the larger Phaeophyceae and Rhodophyceae.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

[Pg 263] exposed to a high temperature would sooner attain maturity, even though larger in bulk, than others exposed to a low one:—and this is the fact.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

In the meantime we may take notice, that where the poet ought to have preserved the character as it was delivered to us by antiquity, when he should have given us the picture of a rough young man, of the Amazonian strain, a jolly huntsman, and both by his profession and his early rising a mortal enemy to love, he has chosen to give him the turn of gallantry, sent him to travel from Athens to Paris, taught him to make love, and transformed the Hippolytus of Euripides into Monsieur Hippolyte.
— from All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy by John Dryden