This might have been expected from the manner in which at least one of them, the malaris , is connected with the orbiculars.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

It had one unusual luxury, however, in the shape of a wardrobe of painted wood, something smaller than an English watch-box; or if this comparison should be insufficient to convey a just idea of its dimensions, they may be estimated from the fact of my having lived for fourteen days and nights in the firm belief that it was a shower-bath.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

But we had not gone perhaps above a hundred yards, when chancing to turn a corner, and looking back as I did so, who should be seen but Elijah following us, though at a distance.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

I know I ought to get rid of this care, and Mary and I should not try to live here alone, but every foot of ground is sacred to me, and I love every article bought by the dear father of my children."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Seeing then, that it is equally disgraceful to become a flatterer through trying only to please, as in avoiding flattery to destroy all friendship and intimacy by excessive freedom of speech, we must avoid both these extremes, and, as in any other case, make our freedom of speech agreeable by its moderation.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

“The clouds may be formed either by the air condensed under the pressure of the winds, or by the agency of atoms set apart for that end, or by emanations from the earth and waters, or by other causes.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

—Ya yo pensaba.... —¿No ha bajado ese fantasioso
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

She concluded with many good wishes that Lady Lucas might soon be equally fortunate, though evidently and triumphantly believing there was no chance of it.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The black smudges of smoke left by many a forgotten evening lamp stare, like blind eyes, from the wall.
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

The forays of the Christians were a terrible curse to their victims; they were rude, unlettered people, and few of them could even read; their manners were on a par with their education; and their fanaticism and cruelty were what might be expected from such uncouth barbarians.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Now, O Lord God, let thy promise unto David my father, be established; for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume I by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox

Their canoes are small, pointed at both ends, flat-bottomed and covered in the fore part.
— from Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie

"Mademoiselle, you are very generous, so you must be equally frank," began Ernestine.
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

Although the father seldom or ever attended public worship, yet he was not ignorant of the principles of religion, and knew what would be expected from his son when he entered upon the clerical profession: in order, therefore, to initiate him in the doctrines which he intended he should teach, he employed a clergyman to assist him in these as well as to instruct him in the classics.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 1 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

We are prepared for contempt and incredulity from the outside world; but for us, whose minds have received the light from those other minds, [85] who have been consoled in our sorrows, strengthened in our faith by those influencing souls, there is nothing more difficult in our creed than in that of Newman, who saw behind each form of material beauty the light, the flower, the living presence of an angel.
— from Beyond These Voices by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

“Experience and observations like these would perhaps justify the inference that an innocent species may sometimes be deleterious, on account of its taking up some bad element from the soil.
— from Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement by W. (William) Robinson

THE SCRIBNER ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish THE STORY OF ROLAND by James Baldwin Illustrated by Peter Hurd THE STORY OF SIEGFRIED by James Baldwin Illustrated by Peter Hurd DRUMS by James Boyd Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth A LITTLE PRINCESS by Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts THE DEERSLAYER by James Fenimore Cooper Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS by James Fenimore Cooper Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth ROBIN HOOD by Paul Creswick Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth THE ENCHANTED BOOK Edited by Alice Dalgliesh Illustrated by Concet
— from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Earle might well be excused for the astonishment he betrayed at the sight of the enemy.
— from In Search of El Dorado by Harry Collingwood