For you too have a boy, Captain Ahab—though but a child, and nestling safely at home now—a child of your old age too—Yes, yes, you relent; I see it—run, run, men, now, and stand by to square in the yards.”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

First crosses between forms known to be varieties, or sufficiently alike to be considered as varieties, and their mongrel offspring, are very generally, but not, as is so often stated, invariably fertile.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Such emotions, however, cannot be commanded at will: and this is also true of the knowledge of what ought to be done in any particular case,—which, if we restrict the term ‘virtuous’ to right acts, is obviously required
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Both competition and conflict are forms of struggle.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The country which they traversed from the Chaboras, to the cultivated lands of Assyria, may be considered as a part of the desert of Arabia, a dry and barren waste, which could never be improved by the most powerful arts of human industry.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Finish your work and return home ahead of him, and do not let the dark cloud from heaven wrap round you and make your body clammy and soak your clothes.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Lydgate believed himself to be careless about his dress, and he despised a man who calculated the effects of his costume; it seemed to him only a matter of course that he had abundance of fresh garments—such things were naturally ordered in sheaves.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Co. Camp Fire and Wigwam Ellis Winston Co. Camp Fire Musings W. C. Gray Revell Camping and Camp Cooking Bates Camping and Camp Outfits G. O. Shields Camping for Boys Gibson Association Press Camping Out Stephens Hurst & Co. Camp Kits and Camp Life Hanks Scribners {380} Camp Life in the Woods Gibson Campmates C. K. Munroe Canoemates Kirk Munroe Canoe and Boat Building Stephens Forest and Stream Canoe and Camp Cookery Seneca Forest and Stream Canoe Boys and Camp Fires Graydon Grosset and Dunlap Captain Thomas A. Scott, Master Diver F. H. Smith Comrades in Camp Victor Chatterton Co. Economical Cook Book Mrs. Sarah Paul John C. Winston & Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

A work that constitutes a Collection will not be considered an Adaptation (as defined above) for the purposes of this License.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

It cannot be called a fake, for he really does what he claims to do, and none, so far, dare imitate him.
— from Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang

I will only add some circumstances which not only may be considered as characteristic of this tyrant, but of the times—and I fear I may add of the people, who suffered and even applauded them.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

This truth, that good children are the greatest blessing and that bad children are the greatest affliction that can befall parents and the State, needs no further illustration.
— from Public School Education by Michael Müller

Therefore, be comforted and stalwart, and dread no annoy or anguish: but fasten all thine intent in Jesus , that thy life be good and convenient; and look that there be nothing in thee that should be displeasing to Him that thou dost not soon amend it.
— from The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Rolle, Richard, of Hampole

As to their islanders, some few of them of the better condition -- as Duncan Graham and Ronald Gray -- wore shirts of mail, but the larger number, so far from desiring armour when they came to close quarters with the enemy, even threw their plaids aside and fought in their shirts, bare legged, bare armed, bare headed.
— from The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-1263) by Robert Leighton

The piano was made by Clementi, and is numbered 10522.
— from Furniture of the Olden Time by Frances Clary Morse

[Pg xvii] Open Season for Fishing (dates inclusive): Bass, crappie, and sunfish, June 16-Oct. 31; trout and landlocked salmon, May 2-Sept. 30; pike, any species, and perch, May 16-Oct. 31.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

[2] I argue from this peculiar manner of greeting, which I have observed several times, that these beings converse by contact, as dogs, cats, mice, and other creatures certainly do.
— from Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Hewlett