With respect to distinct species belonging to the same genus, which on our theory have spread from one parent-source; if we make the same allowances as before for our ignorance, and remember that some forms of life have changed very slowly, enormous periods of time having been thus granted for their migration, the difficulties are far from insuperable; though in this case, as in that of the individuals of the same species, they are often great.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

A splendid, wonderful thing!” “Oh, no, no!” cried Vera Semyonovna, pushing away the book in alarm.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Her elder sister-in-law was warming some milk for the child, when Kadambini became faint, and fell on the bed, saying with a choking voice: "Sister, bring the child here.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

“The matter about which we have the courage and the honour to apply to you, gentlemen, is very clear, very simple, and very brief.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In the search which followed, the man of the cheery voice seemed to the youth to possess a wand of a magic kind.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Their heads were bound in dirty but carefully folded headkerchiefs, and the old man began at once to state a complaint, voluble, stretching a lank arm, screwing up at Jim his old bleared eyes confidently.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Roberts, David , painter, born in Edinburgh; began as a house-painter; became a scene-painter; studied artistic drawing, and devoted himself to architectural painting, his first pictures being of Rouen and Amiens cathedrals; visiting Spain he published a collection of Spanish sketches, and after a tour in the East published in 1842 a magnificently-illustrated volume entitled the "Holy Land, Syria, Idumæa, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia;" a great number of his pictures are ecclesiastical interiors (1796-1864).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Cleve Verney sat, after dinner, at an open window of Ware, with one foot on the broad window-stone, smoking his cigar and gazing across the dark blue sheet of water, whose ripples glimmered by this time in the moonlight, toward the misty wood of Malory.
— from The Tenants of Malory, Volume 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

A giant figure, grimly grotesque in a cumbersome vacuum suit, swaggered forward.
— from Feline Red by Robert Sampson

When we set before our eyes a round globe of any uniform colour, v.g. gold, alabaster, or jet, it is certain that the idea thereby imprinted on our mind is of a flat circle, variously shadowed, with several degrees of light and brightness coming to our eyes.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Few dames can venture successfully on so decided a step; but her saloons were always attended, and by “nice people.”
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Protection outside of copyright Most of the cases arising as to ownership are, in fact, issues outside of copyright law, as when in 1883 in Clemens v. Belford, in the U. S. Circuit Court in Illinois, Samuel L. Clemens vainly sought to restrain the use of his pen-name, "Mark Twain," in a collection of his uncopyrighted papers, Judge Blodgett holding that whoever has a right to publish has a right to state authorship, though an author can restrain the publication over his name of things he did not write.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

It was often so with these holiday folks in Greenwich Park; and, ridiculous as it may sound, I fancy myself to have caught very satisfactory glimpses of Arcadian life among the Cockneys there, hardly beyond the scope of Bow-Bells, picnicking in the grass, uncouthly gambolling on the broad slopes, or straying in motley groups or by single pairs of love-making youths and maidens, along the sun-streaked avenues.
— from Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Two days later the English Squadron left our port followed by our Cruiser Squadron under Admiral Count von Spee.
— from My Escape from Donington Hall, Preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915 by Gunther Plüschow

CHAPTER V. 'Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.' PSA.
— from The Pilgrims of New England A Tale of the Early American Settlers by Mrs. (Annie) Webb-Peploe