He shut his eyes, and when he opened them again, he thought they were a circle of pale visages gazing at him.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

We have reason to believe, as stated in the first chapter, that a change in the conditions of life, by specially acting on the reproductive system, causes or increases variability; and in the foregoing case the conditions of life are supposed to have undergone a change, and this would manifestly be favourable to natural selection, by giving a better chance of profitable variations occurring; and unless profitable variations do occur, natural selection can do nothing.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

The eighth indiction, whether Cæsarean or Pontifical ( v.s. c. 5 , note), includes Sept. 17, 680. 646.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

For to-day have the petty people become master: they all preach submission and humility and policy and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

54 MADONNA MIA A lily-girl , not made for this world’s pain, With brown, soft hair close braided by her ears, And longing eyes half veiled by slumberous tears Like bluest water seen through mists of rain: Pale cheeks whereon no love hath left its stain, Red underlip drawn in for fear of love, And white throat, whiter than the silvered dove, Through whose wan marble creeps one purple vein.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

At sixteen she came out; presented, vaunted, She put all coronets into commotion: At seventeen, too, the world was still enchanted With the new Venus of their brilliant ocean: At eighteen, though below her feet still panted A hecatomb of suitors with devotion, She had consented to create again
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

As Annette looked down from the corridor upon the hall, whose arches and windows were illuminated with brilliant festoons of lamps, and gazed on the splendid dresses of the dancers, the costly liveries of the attendants, the canopies of purple velvet and gold, and listened to the gay strains that floated along the vaulted roof, she almost fancied herself in an enchanted palace, and declared, that she had not met with any place, which charmed her so much, since she read the fairy tales; nay, that the fairies themselves, at their nightly revels in this old hall, could display nothing finer; while old Dorothee, as she surveyed the scene, sighed, and said, the castle looked as it was wont to do in the time of her youth.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

We will then point out the criterion of pure virtue in an example first, and, imagining that it is set before a boy, of say ten years old, for his judgement, we will see whether he would necessarily judge so of himself without being guided by his teacher.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Upon festival days the masters made solemn meetings in the churches, where their scholars disputed logically and demonstratively; some bringing enthimems, other perfect syllogisms; some disputed for shew, other to trace out the truth; cunning sophisters were thought brave scholars when they flowed with words; others used fallacies; rhetoricians spake aptly to persuade, observing the precepts of art, and omitting nothing that might serve their purpose: the boys of diverse schools did cap or pot verses, and contended of the principles of grammar; there were some which on the other side with epigrams and rymes, nipping and quipping their fellowes, and the faults of others, though suppressing their names, moved thereby much laughter among their auditors.”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

“Divinabit” seems preferable here to “damnabit,” or “demonstrabit,” the other readings; and Burmann is probably right in supposing that he means to say that many of the Æsopian fables had not yet been used by him, and though others may make use of them as bearing a general moral, they will not be able so well as himself to point their moral in reference to individuals or classes, in consequence of his advantage in having already adapted many of them to the censure of particular vices.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Minor punctuation errors were corrected on pages vi , 4 , 13 , 19 , 90 , 141 , 151 , 200 , 202 , 206 , 215 , 258 , 271 , 301 , 313 , 323 , 346 , 457 , 460 , 464 .
— from The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Frederick Hollick

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.3% (1999) Labor force: 29.2 million (1999) Labor force - by occupation: services 68.9%, manufacturing and construction 17.5%, government 11.3%, energy 1.2%, agriculture 1.1% (1996) Unemployment rate: 6% (1999) Budget: revenues: $541 billion expenditures: $507.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $35.1 billion (FY98/99) Industries: production machinery including machine tools, electric power equipment, automation equipment, railroad equipment, shipbuilding, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, electronics and communications equipment, metals, chemicals, coal, petroleum, paper and paper products, food processing, textiles, clothing, and other consumer goods Industrial production growth rate: -0.3% (1999) Electricity - production: 343.099 billion kWh (1998) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 68.24% hydro: 1.49% nuclear: 28.48% other: 1.79% (1998) Electricity - consumption: 331.482 billion kWh (1998) Electricity - exports: 200 million kWh (1998) Electricity - imports: 12.6 billion kWh (1998) Agriculture - products: cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish Exports: $271 billion (f.o.b., 1998) Exports - commodities: manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals; food, beverages, tobacco Exports - partners: EU 58% (Germany 12%, France 10%, Netherlands 8%), US 13% (1998)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

A lofty range of mountains, which is so ancient as to date from a period when the species of animals and plants differed from those now living, will naturally form a barrier between contiguous provinces; but a chain which has been raised, in great part, within the epoch of existing species, and around which new lands have arisen from the sea within that period, will be a centre of peculiar vegetation.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Cyrillus Catechismo 4 ad illuminatos, Arbitrium incitare potest Diabolus cogere omnino preter voluntatem non potest.
— from A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts

He was afterwards Governor-General of Jamaica, where the active and energetic measures he took to crush the insurrection of 1865 incited a storm of opposition against him in certain quarters, and he played a leading part in the great constitutional cases of Philips v. Eyre, and The Queen v. Eyre.
— from The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Ernest Favenc

This led naturally to a change of political views, and though at the time of their banishment all of them were Guelfs in various degrees, as months and years went on they developed into Ghibelines, more or less declared.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The corporation of Plymouth voted him the freedom of the town.
— from Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

He had sometimes come off perfectly victorious, without touching them, but as often managed to kick them about the floor.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

In 1378, the Duchesse d'Orléans writes to excuse herself from coming to take her seat as a peer in the Parliament of Paris; the Duchesse d'Artois, Mahaut, had been present at the coronation of Philippe V, and had supported, with the other peers, the crown on the head of the king.
— from Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton