The cones are more developed and more numerous in the spot where vision is most distinct.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

The Christian certainly experienced the need of sexual love, but only as a need in contradiction with his heavenly [ 168 ] destination, and merely natural, in the depreciatory, contemptuous sense which this word had in Christianity,—not as a moral, inward need—not, if I may so express myself, as a metaphysical, i.e. , an essential need, which man can experience only where he does not separate difference of sex from himself, but, on the contrary, regards it as belonging to his inmost nature.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

'I have done after my nature, in the sway and impulse of our time, and as the King has said, After us the deluge.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 1 by Gilbert Parker

XL With the license of long familiarity, Donald knocked at the front door of the Brent cottage to announce his arrival; then, without awaiting permission to enter, he opened the door and met Nan in the tiny hall hurrying to admit him.
— from Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

When a piece of zinc and a piece of copper, united by a wire, are dipped in sulphuric acid and deflect a magnetic needle in the vicinity of the wire, the unprepossessed discoverer of the fact discerns naught of motion beyond the deflection of the needle and the diffusion in the fluid.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

But however the case may stand with regard to the pre-dynastic period, there can be no question that by the end of the Third Dynasty even Egypt had developed a marine not inadequate to the requirements of the Cretan passage.
— from The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie

I'm thinking of the motor boat, and the long days and moony nights in the seas among these islands!"
— from Boy Scouts in the Philippines; Or, The Key to the Treaty Box by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

Being completely engrossed in the cares of business, I could not give the attention to their training that I ought to have done; and the first thing that brought me to a sense of my duty and my neglect in this matter, was the visit of a police officer, who called at my [Pg 106] office, and informed me that Clarence had been arrested in a saloon for engaging in a brawl over a game of cards——” “Gracious!” gasped Bert.
— from The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt" by Harry Castlemon