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

It was strange, though, that in this glorious fief of his so many persons should, as yet, live day by day as cattle live, suspicious of all other moving things (with reason), and roused from their incurious and filthy apathy only when some glittering baron, like a resistless eagle, swept uncomfortably near on some by-errand of the more bright and windy upper-world.
— from Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

It was strange, though, that in this glorious fief of his so many persons should, as yet, live day by day as cattle live, suspicious of all other moving things (with reason), and roused from their incurious and filthy apathy only when some glittering baron, like a resistless eagle, swept uncomfortably near as he passed on some by-errand of the more bright and windy upper-world.
— from Chivalry: Dizain des Reines by James Branch Cabell

A moment after she sat erect again, but languid and red eyed, saying, as if with sudden resolve: "I will tell you all I know about it, and then you can judge for yourself.
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

The War Lord had instructed Bassewitz and Keller to treat Bertha "like a raw egg," saying: "Her income is bigger per minute than that of all you Prussian Junkers per annum"—a gratuitous slap, the more ungenerous since the old Kings of Prussia gobbled up a goodly part of their landed possessions, as Bismarck once pointed out to Frederick William IV.
— from The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp From the Papers and Diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'Alteville by Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer

Jebel Musa , "the Mountain of Moses," which is supported by local tradition, and by the authority of Ritter, Kurtz, Keil and Kalisch; Jebel Serbal , claimed by Lepsius; and Râs es Sufsafeh , supported by Robinson, Dean Stanley, and the most of recent travelers.
— from Bible Atlas: A Manual of Biblical Geography and History by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut