If the credibility of the relation of these incidents going to prove an astonishing coincidence in the sacred histories of the Hindoo and Christian Saviors, and demonstrating the doctrine of the crucifixion as having been practically realized, and preached to the world long anterior to the offering of a God "once for all" on Mount Calvary; if its credibility rested on mere ex parte testimony, mere pagan tradition, or even upon the best digested and most authentic annals of the past that have escaped the ravages of time, there might still be a forlorn hope for the stickler for the Christian faith now struggling in the agonies of a credal skepticism, that the whole thing has been plagiarized from the Christian Gospels.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Fifteen months after Darwin had commenced his inquiry a chance reading of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population gave him the clue to the explanation of the origin of species through the struggle for existence.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Thereto Punch Costello roared out mainly Etienne chanson but he loudly bid them, lo, wisdom hath built herself a house, this vast majestic longstablished vault, the crystal palace of the Creator, all in applepie order, a penny for him who finds the pea.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

On the whole, tendons are to muscular fibres, and bones are to tendons, combining recipients of mechanical energies.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Their outward resemblance to some of the ridges on the moon is unquestionable; and if we could believe that the Maria, as we now see them, are dried-up sea-beds, it might be concluded that these ridges had a similar origin; but their close connection with centres of volcanic disturbance, and the numbers of little craters on or near their track, point to the supposition that they consist rather of material exuded from long-extending fissures in the crust of the "seas," and in other surfaces where they are superimposed.
— from The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

The second, and, from the literary point of view, more interesting section was made up of a number of poems, chiefly sonnets, composed by Brantôme, and bearing the general title: Recueil d'aulcunes rymes de mes Jeunes Amours que j'ay d'aultres fois composées telles quelles , that is, "Collection of Certain Rhymes of my early loves, which I formerly composed, such as they are".
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

By means of this principle we may throw light on the apparently complicated results of many experiments.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

He wouldn't have so much trouble with his hired men if they could ride on my engine, I bet."
— from The Forbidden Trail by Honoré Morrow

Still it belongs to the great central fires which keep the human soul alive, and it has in various forms been God’s special gift to the Celtic races of mankind, especially in this country.
— from A Record of St. Cybi's Church, Holyhead and the Sermon preached after its Restoration, 1879 by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

I thought my perhaps city rig or manner embarrassed him, so I stuck my hands in my pockets, spat, and said, so as to set him at his ease: "It's blanky hot to-day.
— from The Awful Australian by Valerie Desmond

We do not fear to say that he was religious far beyond the common run of men, even them who may have had a more consistent and better considered creed.
— from The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull