With them [118] art began too precipitately, as mere form without matter; a thing of disconnected empiric rules, caught from the mere surface of other people's productions, in congruity with a general method which everywhere ruthlessly severed branch and flower from its natural root—art from one's own vivid sensation or belief.
— from Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater

It was well built and fairly furnished in native fashion.
— from The Campaign of the Jungle; Or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer

It is all to welcome the mature ovum and its possible impregnation, to prepare a site for its landing and settlement, blood and food for its nutrition, safety for its development.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

Why, it's been a foggy Friday in November for the last six months and the Athenians are tired of it.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

In 1777, he was in the battle at Fort Freeland, in Northumberland county, Penn.
— from A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison by James E. (James Everett) Seaver

The little unfledged bird also falls from its nest, when attempting a premature flight.
— from The Cat: Its Natural History; Domestic Varieties; Management and Treatment by Philip M. Rule

For the account of Birds and Fishes found in Norfolk (pp. 513-539), Professor Alfred Newton generously placed his annotated copy at the disposal of the editor.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir