Ovsen, a mythological being peculiar to the season, is supposed to make his entry about this time, riding a boar (another indication of Aryan descent), and no Christmas or New Year's dinner is considered complete without pork served in some form.
— from Yule-Tide in Many Lands by Mary Poague Pringle

The comparison of the phenomena of human and animal transformation is especially interesting in connection with the laws of divergence and progress, the two fundamental laws which, at the end of the last chapter, we proved to be direct and necessary consequences of natural selection in the struggle for life.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

Von Vollmar made merry over Kautsky's "inquisition" and called the debate "a noisy cackling over nothing.
— from Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel Peter Orth

That which followed the night which we have described afforded no circumstance of note.
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott

The other rude termes, wherewith Deuon and Cornish men are often twyted, may plead in their defence, not onely the prescription of antiquitie, but also the title of proprietie, and the benefit of significancy: for most of them take their source from the Saxon, our naturall language, and continue in vse amongst the Dutch: as Nimme commeth of Nimpt: Vang, of Fieng: the one importing a taking by ones selfe: the other by deliuery: both which we now confound.
— from The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

"Some of the dictionaries are not correct on nautical matters.
— from All Taut; or, Rigging the boat by Oliver Optic