But a new danger appears in the excess of influence of the great man.
— from Representative Men: Seven Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson

They have, at times, a number of small shafts surrounding a central pillar; but these shafts are, like those of the doors, cut out of the same block, and not detached, as in the Early English style.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

[716] : but perhaps their structure will be better understood if they are divided into agglomerate ovaries and branching ovaries: in the first the egg-tubes form two bundles, in which the branches are not discernible, as in the Ephemera , the chamæleon-fly, and spiders [717] : and in the second the branches are distinct, as in the Lepidoptera and the majority of insects.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby