But, as Buckland long ago remarked, extinct species can all be classed either in still existing groups, or between them.
— 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

Leave him at first to the law of nature without any hindrance, but never forget that under our conditions he must rise above this law; he must be able to go to bed late and rise early, be awakened suddenly, or sit up all night without ill effects.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Birthwort long and round, Elicampane, Liquorice, Orris English and Florentine, Calamus Aromaticus, Cinquefoil, Squills.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

She went to bed later and rose earlier than any of them, and no difficulties daunted her.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The cottages of the peasants—that is, of the agricultural laborers—were windowless to a degree which led me to look for a small- and dull-eyed race, but the eloquent orbs of youths and maidens in all this Banat land are rarely equalled in beauty.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

Obviously, fairy stories cannot be lumped and rejected en masse.
— from Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds by Lucy Sprague Mitchell

America, whose geographical conditions made water transport relatively far more important than it was in Great Britain, lent a ready ear to the schemes of inventors.
— from The Evolution of Naval Armament by Frederick Leslie Robertson

El Salvador Middle America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and Honduras Equatorial Guinea Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon Eritrea Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan Estonia Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia Ethiopia Eastern Africa, west of Somalia Europa Island Southern Africa, island in the Mozambique Channel, about one-half of the way from southern Madagascar to southern Mozambique Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Southern South America, islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, east of southern Argentina Faroe Islands Northern Europe, island group between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Iceland to Norway Fiji Oceania, island group in the South Pacific Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand Finland Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Sweden and Russia France Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain, southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain French Guiana Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Brazil and Suriname French Polynesia Oceania, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from South America to Australia French Southern and Antarctic Lands southeast of Africa, islands in the southern Indian Ocean, about equidistant between Africa, Antarctica, and Australia; note - French Southern and Antarctic Lands include Ile Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul, Iles Crozet, and Iles Kerguelen in the southern Indian Ocean, along with the French-claimed sector of Antarctica, "Adelie Land"; the US does not recognize the French claim to "Adelie Land" Gabon Western Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean at the Equator, between Republic of the Congo and Equatorial Guinea Gambia, The Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and Senegal Gaza Strip Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Israel Georgia Southwestern Asia, bordering the Black Sea, between Turkey and Russia Germany Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark Ghana Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Cote d'Ivoire and Togo Gibraltar Southwestern Europe, bordering the Strait of Gibraltar, which links the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southern coast of Spain Glorioso Islands Southern Africa, group of islands in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Madagascar Greece Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey Greenland Northern North America, island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada Grenada Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago Guadeloupe Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Puerto Rico Guam Oceania, island in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He loved tools and he loved wandering; even yet he loved them, and this figure had once represented Romance to him as definitely as the dead man in russet brown, long afterward, represented Evil.
— from The Spider's Web by Reginald Wright Kauffman

[Pg 153] I Wooed the Blue-Eyed Maid [Pg 154] "Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us.
— from The Silent Readers: Sixth Reader by Ethel Maltby Gehres

A vast and ever-increasing crowd of converts from paganism, who had become such from worldly considerations, and still hankered after wonders like those in which their forefathers had from time immemorial believed, lent a ready ear to assertions which, to more hesitating or better-instructed minds, would have Discovery of the true cross and nails.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

Returned from Europe after a long absence, he had for some years been living a retired, even a recluse life, was personally known to a few friends, and by name only to the public.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various