[A] [B] [ Enlarge ] Natural sounds are given in white notes.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

If then our diagram be assumed to represent a considerable amount of modification, species (A) and all the earlier varieties will have become extinct, having been replaced by eight new species (a14 to m14); and (I) will have been replaced by six (n14 to z14) new species.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Then he would fall back on his reserves, his strong point, his specialty—masses with bombs and fireworks; whereat Doña Patrocinia could only gnaw at her lips with her toothless gums, because, being exceedingly nervous, she could not endure the chiming of the bells and still less the explosions of the bombs.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Hæc brevis est nostrorum summa malorum —Such is the short sum of our evils. Ovid.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In England, owing to the less frequent ceremonial appearances of the heralds, and the more scrupulous control Page 42 {42} which has been exercised, no such anachronisms as were perpetuated in Scotland have been tolerated, and it has been customary for the officers of arms to wear their uniform as members of the Sovereign's Household (in which uniform they attend the levees) beneath the tabard when making proclamations at the opening of Parliament or on similar occasions.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Ware damage to the goods beschäftigen employ beschäftigen engage beschäftigen; anwenden employ beschäftigt engaged beschäftigt; besetzt engaged Beschäftigter; Angestellter; Arbeitnehmer employee Beschäftigter; Arbeitnehmer employee Beschäftigung employment Beschäftigung engagement Beschäftigung job Beschäftigung occupation Beschäftigung bei Nacht night employment Beschäftigung ohne Gewerkschaftszugehörigkeit open shop Beschäftigungsart mode of employment Beschäftigungsdauer; Dauer der Beschäftigung duration of employment Beschäftigungsgrad activity rate Beschäftigungsgruppe; Berufsgruppe occupation group Beschäftigungsindex index of employment Beschäftigungsniveau level of employment Beschäftigungsniveau occupational level Beschäftigungsplanung employment scheduling Beschäftigungstheorie employment theory Beschäftigungsvertrag articles of employment Beschäftigungswechsel change of occupation Beschäftigungszeit period of employment bescheiden moderate bescheidenes Einkommen moderate income bescheinigen attest Bescheinigung attestation Bescheinigung certificate Bescheinigung der Annahme; Empfangsschein acknowledgement of acceptance Bescheinigung des Bezugsrechts warrant Bescheinigung des Gewichts certification of weight Bescheinigung eines neutralen Sachverständ.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

He added not, and from her turn’d, but Eve Not so repulst, with Tears that ceas’d not flowing, And tresses all disorderd, at his feet Fell humble, and imbracing them, besaught His peace, and thus proceeded in her plaint.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The whole mystery of Monimia's behaviour, which he could not before explain, now stood disclosed before him.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The text of the play which we possess to-day still contains the passages which Seami ridiculed, so that it must be Enami no Sayemon’s version which has survived, while Seami’s amended text is lost.
— from The Nō Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley

But, even now, she found them difficult to wield, and hard to control.
— from Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

The Investigating Committee has made the most thorough disclosures of the thorough incapacity of (p. 148) McClellan; but the McClellan men, Seward, Blair, etc., neutralize, stifle all the good which could accrue to the country from these disclosures.
— from Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

just before Ezekiel, no such assumption could have been made.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy by Andrew Harper

Nous allons en Grèce; nous offrons notre bras et notre sang; on accepte, et on ne nous paye pas....
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

V. Now winde they a recheat, the roused deer’s knell, And through the forrest all the beasts are aw’d; Alarm’d by Eccho, Nature’s sentinel, Which shows that murd’rous man is come abroad.
— from The Broken Font: A Story of the Civil War, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Moyle Sherer

[Pg 150] FOOTNOTES: [6] I have been since assured, by Eric (now Sir Eric) Hambro, that we won on the last green.—H.G.H. CHAPTER XXIV ABOUT HAROLD HILTON, FREDDY TAIT AND OTHERS What between trying to be sculptor and succeeding in getting married, I did not pay all the attention that I should have done to golf in the early nineties.
— from Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. (Horace Gordon) Hutchinson

I would give worlds, had my lot resembled your's; had I been employed not solely in the culture of these trees, myself almost as much a vegetable, but, like you, cultivating my mind, my manners, and forming myself into a companion for—the wise and good!"
— from Mystery and Confidence: A Tale. Vol. 1 by Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard