There cease to be fixed outlines, continuous colours, or discrete existences in nature.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Countless other dissimilarities exist in natures and characters, and they are not in the least to be criticized.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The neocarballoy casing lasted just long enough—that frightful charge of duodec exploded, if not exactly at the center of the vortex, at least near enough to the center to do the work.
— from The Vortex Blaster by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

1.—Content of Den Excavated in New Mexico.
— from Life History of the Kangaroo Rat by Walter P. (Walter Penn) Taylor

While Kalulu had been thus employing himself, a company of drummers, eight in number, two tumblers,—or, as we should call them, two mountebanks,—and fifty couples of young men and women had formed themselves in a circle; and as Kalulu ceased speaking, the Magic Doctor, or Mganga, as the natives called him, raised his voice and sang the marriage song, while he danced in an ecstatic manner as he sang.
— from My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave: A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley