The punishments of the infernal regions, on the contrary, are varied and numerous; and while the elect, who are enjoying themselves in Paradise, are all fat and plump, the poor condemned beings are so lean that their bones show through their skin, and the expression of their faces is pitiful and full of a most comic seriousness.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

As soon as the three Orchidean forms, Monachanthus, Myanthus, and Catasetum, which had previously been ranked as three distinct genera, were known to be sometimes produced on the same plant, they were immediately considered as varieties; and now I have been able to show that they are the male, female, and hermaphrodite forms of the same species.
— 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

You loved your children as victories, and not because they were of your own blood.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Ferdinand for some time had no reason to be dissatisfied with this disposition, by which he was at once delivered from the fatigues of a campaign, and the inspection of a severe censor, in the person of Count Melvil; and his satisfaction was still increased by an accidental meeting with the Tyrolese who had been his confederate at Vienna, and now chanced to serve in garrison on the same footing with himself.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Immense waves threatened to overwhelm the island, and certainly any vessel anchored near the shore would have been dashed to pieces.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

If we accept the soul hypothesis, as it seems we must, and regard a soul as an indestructible unit of invisible power possessing consciousness and volition, and normally able to exist independently of a human body, then it becomes a logical and a scientific necessity to postulate its pre-existence, because as such a unit it is indestructible, in accordance with the law of the conservation of energy and indestructibility of matter.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertaken.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Spectandum nigris oculis, nigroque capillo , which Hesiod admires in his Alemena, [4947] Cujus a vertice ac nigricantibus oculis, Tale quiddam spiral ac ab aurea Venere.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In the other animals, we have the same physical fact, followed by moral phenomena less complex and varied, and not so lasting.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

In the South-eastern province we find in forty and forty-five fathoms on a muddy bottom in Bass Strait, Turritella sinuata, Trochus nebulosus, a Pleurotoma, an Emarginula, a Dentalium, two species of Cardita, a Cypricardia, a Venus, a Nucula, and Pectunculus holosericeus.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by John MacGillivray

Wireless communication between Cupia, and Vairkingia and New Formia was at an end.
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley

To-day we went into the Chinese City and visited a native department store.
— from Peking Dust by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

When, a month later, the Queen of Hungary left Augsburg, she paid Christina a visit at Nancy, bringing with her Anne of Lorraine and William, the young Prince of Orange, a promising boy of fifteen, who was being educated at Court, and met with a kindly welcome from the Duchess and her subjects for the sake of the lamented Prince whose name he bore.
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

Carlton had disrobed himself of coat and vest, and now stood before his antagonist clothed only in his lower garments and linen.
— from The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence by Maturin Murray Ballou

’ At what historical period the Sanskrit-speaking race was settled in seats where the sun rose and set in water, we do not know, and ‘chapter and verse’ are needed for the statement that ‘frog’ was actually a name of the sun.
— from Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang

Yore hosses are a lot of crowbait, and——" "The women is women as is women," cried another voice, "and not yore leetle white-faced, yaller-haired sort that'd keel over if yo' said boo to her!"
— from The Westerners by Stewart Edward White

Yes, I admit that lace curtains and victrolas are not necessities.
— from One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow