Who could ever learn the impenetrable secret of the Needle?
— from The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

Nor do well-trained and properly-fed cats ever lose this innate sense of fun, and love of the ridiculous.
— from Cats: Their Points and Characteristics With Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments by Gordon Stables

But any soil that can be put into a friable condition, and kept so during the period of cultivation, will produce salable peanuts, provided it contains enough lime to insure solid pods.
— from The Peanut Plant: Its Cultivation And Uses by B. W. Jones

The incisors and canines are simple and conical; the cheek teeth are compressed and have serrated cutting edges like those in some seals.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds