Of these the most fearsome are the tarantulas, the commonly used but incorrect name for the largest spider known, the Mygale Hentzi , a black hairy creature with body about the size of a two-shilling piece and black hairy legs two inches long.
— from The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan by Frederick J. Tabor Frost

"I came up because I needed a rest.
— from A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Boothby

For when I published my treatise on the Eucharist[26], I clung to the common usage, being in no wise concerned with the question of the right or wrong of the papacy.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

Sisymbrium Nasturtium.—A well known herb in common use, but is not in cultivation, although it is one of our best salads.
— from The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Or an Introduction to the Knowledge of Practical Botany, and the Uses of Plants. Either Growing Wild in Great Britain, or Cultivated for the Puroses of Agriculture, Medicine, Rural Oeconomy, or the Arts by William Salisbury

The effect of this change upon Bohemia is not difficult to imagine.
— from Vie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic Paris by Orlo Williams

From the enthusiasm displayed amongst the little men, this was evidently carried unanimously, but I noticed two young men sitting aloof from the rest of the crowd and looking rather sullen and frightened, and as they did not join [ 102 ] in the general warlike demonstrations, it was evidently their first fight.
— from Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by H. Wilfrid Walker

The green field which lay at the back of the house, in front billowed across to masses of rock leading sixty feet downward to the bottle-green water, churned at this point into a constant unrest by its never ceasing attack upon the gray confusion of points and ledges.
— from The Opened Shutters: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

The fugue in Dvořák's Requiem is conspicuously unsuccessful, but it need not affect our estimate of the ' Dies Iræ ' or the ' Recordare Jesu pie .'
— from Studies in Modern Music, Second Series Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms by W. H. (William Henry) Hadow

But Tommy at the front manages to converse with the poilu without any vocabulary at all: I met a chap the other day a-roostin' in a trench, 'E didn't know a word of ours nor me a word of French, An' 'ow it was we managed--well, I cannot understand, But I never used the phrase-book, though I 'ad it in my hand.
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

I hain't got a critter that won't come up by its name an' lick my hand.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson