If I could only touch a button and turn on a bright electric light over his head!
— from Gorillas & Chimpanzees by R. L. (Richard Lynch) Garner

The genera are, in great part, the same or nearly allied; but the species are rarely identical, and are often very unlike, as in the case of the American badger and that of Europe.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

A rabbit has as much chance of throttling a bulldog as the ordinary prisoner of endangering the life of a guard; yet hardly a prisoner in the penitentiary has not repeatedly either undergone or witnessed, or both, insults and physical violence offered by guards to the men.
— from The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne

The boys bunched at the doors t’ cut off the Arnaz boy and the ole lady.
— from Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates

Magnified. (After Leuckart.) (4) The CERCARIÆ 266 are very different; typically they consist of the anterior body and the oar-like tail at the posterior end (fig. 134).
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

When there went through the Russian community a report that Lee Oswald had inflicted physical violence on Marina, then the community objected to assistance being afforded the Oswalds?
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

As for Captain Cy he spent many evening hours, after the rest of his household was in bed, poring over catalogues of toys and books, and the orders he sent to the big shops in Boston were lengthy and costly.
— from Cy Whittaker's Place by Joseph Crosby Lincoln