I got under cover and crawled like a snake till I came to a patch of banana trees, where I stopped 245 long enough to eat and to fill my pockets.
— from The Picaroons by Gelett Burgess

It needs a hot moist climate, but if there be too much rain as the pods are ripening they drop off, so that only certain localities are suited to its cultivation.
— from Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor

Now, if it be objected that true courage is something higher than mere thinking and willing, then you, my worthy friends, will be the first to recognize mine, when it shall break forth into not barren and empty, but active and effective words, while I strengthen my future Catechetical Pupils, as well as can be done in a course of College Lectures, and steel them into Christian heroes.
— from The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings by Jean Paul

Now, without accepting the mechanical theory of Herr Brugger, [67] which would make the first Arthurian romances consist of continental lais automatically strung together, I certainly think that the lais played a more important part in the evolution of these romances than we generally realise.
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston