And all these things are continually killing each other and dying.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It would appear that at the White House the representations from St. James's were regarded as reasonable, for after this the American cruisers kept a more deferential distance; the Banshee at any rate was able to run into Nassau without being overhauled, and her arrival there caused a great sensation, as being the first boat specially built for the service.
— from Running the Blockade A Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks, and Escapes During the American Civil War by Thomas E. Taylor

According to tradition, a cruel king invaded Samarkand and pitched his tents on a plain where Chūpān Ātā now rears its head.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir

Restaur. , p. 65., that Calvin made such an offer and "that the Archbishop (Cranmer) knew the man and refused his offer," the Dean says: "He gives no authority for the later part of his statement, and it can hardly be reconciled with Cranmer's letter to Calvin of March 20, 1552."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Thus the eggs of the gnat are oblong and narrow, or nearly cylindrical, having at the top a cylindrical knob [166] , so as to give them the precise form of the round-bottomed phial sometimes used by chemists: those of the common [Pg 94] water-scorpion ( Nepa cinerea ) are oblong, and at the upper end are surrounded by a sort of coronet, consisting of seven slender rays or bristles of the length of the egg
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby