No one can have marvelled more than I have done at the extinction of species.
— 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

Thus we must be prepared to admit that the internal stimuli may play the same role in the dream as the external.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

What we mean is rather that no matter how long we searched the sea waves, in which it is the essence of our Tritons to disport themselves, we should never find Tritons there; and that if we traced back the history of man and nature we should find them always passing by natural generation out of slightly different earlier forms and never appearing suddenly, at the fiat of a vehement Jehovah swimming about in a chaos; and finally that if we considered critically our motives and our ideals, we should find them springing from and directed upon a natural life and its functions, and not at all on a disembodied and timeless ecstasy.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

One man after another stepped into the ring and sang of what he had done against the enemies of his tribe.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

In New England, every citizen receives the elementary notions of human knowledge; he is moreover taught the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its Constitution.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

After the translation had been made and shown to all the ministers, a fire of questions was directed against the envoy, who answered them well.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

In the ballroom guests stood crowding at the entrance doors awaiting the Emperor.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Well, when you get into the house, go straight through the vestibule and hall to the door at the end.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The delivery at this end was the toil, the tears, and the blood of the slave plantation.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 12, December 1879 by Various

The barricades were to be destroyed and the enemy bombed out.
— from Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall

And beholding these two princes greatly delighted and their eyes expanded with joy, the king of the monkeys, thought that the accomplishment of the great wort was near at hand, and was accordingly greatly delighted.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

For instance, the diameter across the equator is about 76,470 miles, while from pole to pole it is much less, namely, 69,770.
— from Astronomy of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage

As soon as the last strap was buckled he lashed up and drove away, too excited even to say thank you.
— from With Steyn and De Wet by F. F. (Filippus Fourie) Pienaar

Suddenly the engine stopped, and to those below, anxiously watching, the silence became almost oppressive, for Tom had somewhat descended, and the explosions had been plainly heard by those observing him.
— from Tom Swift and His Wireless Message; Or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island by Victor Appleton

A little knot near the Judge's house were still discussing the matter, as in doubt about the expediency of further search in that locality.
— from Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. (Albert Gallatin) Riddle

“Here are books,” said the Doctor, “and the evening papers,—‘Picayune,’ ‘Delta,’ ‘True Delta.’”
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

She was a pioneer in social service work, but her career was tragically cut short when [Pg 54] she died at the early age of twenty-six.
— from Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati by Warren Crocker Herrick