Gregor's father and mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it would have been more than they could stand to have any more experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were indeed suffering enough.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Ionia, a miscellaneous dictionary of history and fable, was compiled by another empress of the name of Eudocia, who lived in the eleventh century: and the work is still extant in manuscript.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This bench is sometimes continuous around the whole interior, sometimes extends only partly around.
— from The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

Such is, in short, the manner in which the general theory of nutrition should be considered, a theory which I shall explain at length in my physiology, and upon which I will now offer a few words, to show that it is not a system formed by accident, but that it rests upon the laws of the economy, and upon its organic phenomena.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

To be consulted as to what I should eat or to have any choice whatever, was not only new, but startling.
— from From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Alexander Irvine

This gave it in time the victory in the struggle with its competitors, as to whether it should eat or be eaten.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler