Mrs. Godstone had indeed been in for a chat each day with Jack's mother, and had told her husband that she felt sure neither Mrs. Robson nor Jack would like an offer of money.
— from A Chapter of Adventures by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The head facing the west seems to have been intended for a curvilinear enclosure similar to that at Maenec, but is now, at least, very incomplete.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

Economic headwinds are blowing in from a Chinese economy that is in significant transition.
— from State of the Union Addresses of Barack Obama, 2009-2016 by Barack Obama

There are ants white and yellow, locusts and cicadas, bees and butterflies, spiders and beetles, scorpions and cockroaches—and especially ants—with a really scientific investigation of their wonderful habits not in dry detail, but in free and charming exposition and narrative.
— from To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks

The only knowledge which has been considered essential among us is that of words, and, next after it, of the abstract sciences; while every liking shown by children for simple natural history has been either violently checked, (if it took an inconvenient form for the housemaids,) or else scrupulously limited to hours of play: so that it has really been impossible for any child earnestly to study the works of God but against its conscience; and the love of nature has become inherently the characteristic of truants and idlers.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin

The child claims from these objects of its love all the signs of affection which it knows of; it wants to kiss them, touch them, and look at them; it is curious to see their genitals, and to be with them when they perform their intimate excremental functions; it promises to marry its mother or nurse—whatever it may understand by that; it proposes to itself to bear its father a child, etc.
— from Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud

The rocks, both in form and colour, especially between Namur and Liege, surpass any upon the Rhine, though
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

Nearly allied to sun-stroke, but perhaps sufficiently different to deserve separate classification, are those attacks which some writers style cases of thermic fever, which arise mainly in places where the body is for a continuance exposed to temperatures exceeding the normal amount of the human body.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball

A more unpropitious day for the angler can scarcely be imagined; for a cold east wind blew, and from time to time a thin drizzling rain beat in our faces.
— from Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

Others brought in fate, and committed everything to the stars at birth.
— from Barlaam and Ioasaph by Saint John of Damascus