'Don't go on posturing like a Deaf and Dumb School,' said the ingenious Fledgeby, 'but express yourself like a Christian—or as nearly as you can.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The circumstances of depth and descent strike so strongly upon him, that their influence can-not be destroyed by the contrary circumstances of support and solidity, which ought to give him a perfect security.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

On the slow and successive appearance of new species—On their different rates of change—Species once lost do not reappear—Groups of species follow the same general rules in their appearance and disappearance as do single species—On extinction—On simultaneous changes in the forms of life throughout the world—On the affinities of extinct species to each other and to living species—On the state of development of ancient forms—On the succession of the same types within the same areas—Summary of preceding and present chapters.
— 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

ery disadvantage of disapprobation at home, and every anxiety attending his profession, all their probable fears, delays, and disappointments, she should yet have been a happier woman in maintaining the engagement, than she had been in the sacrifice of it; and this, she fully believed, had the usual share, had even more than the usual share of all such solicitudes and suspense been theirs, without reference to the actual results of their case, which, as it happened, would have bestowed earlier prosperity than could be reasonably calculated on.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

So is the danger a danger still; so is the fear worse.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daisy’s been telling her about how we should all go to her with our little joys and sorrows and things, and about the sweet influence from a sick bed that can be felt all over the house, like in What Katy Did, and Dora said she hoped she might prove a blessing to us all while she’s laid up.’
— from The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Durch die Vielzahl der Assoziationen dürfte sich schneller als bisher eine gehobene fachsprachliche Kompetenz entwickeln.
— from Mr. Honey's Small Business Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig

Through the living rock which formed its roof he commanded the Court architect to drive a deep shaft, so that from the gloom of his cavernous abode he might be able to behold the stars even at midday; for Ibrahim was pre-eminent in the study of that lore of the heavenly bodies, that thrice noble science of astrology, which the truly wise of all ages have recognized as the real source of all divine knowledge, and the shallow erudition of a later day foolishly despises.
— from Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

She felt herself going down and down, strangling, smothering, dying.
— from Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon

Below, a thick copse-wood lay in deep and dark shadow, somewhat resembling the billows of a half-seen ocean.
— from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott

In a moment of defiance and determination she sent a telegram studiously colourless, “Unable find you wish communicate please inform.
— from The Path of a Star by Sara Jeannette Duncan

CXVI On Argier's king he sprang, like savage boar, Encountering him with shoulder and with shield; And him disordered and distrest so sore, That with one stirrup's loss, the monarch reeled. — "Rogero," Mandricardo cried, "give o'er, Or else with me divide the battle-field"; And struck, this said, with worse than felon spite, Upon the morion of that youthful knight.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

Two hours after we had passed the torrent a dull and distant sound struck our ears.
— from Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière