in short it is not common to find two bear here of this speceis precisely of the same colour, and if we were to attempt to distinguish them by their collours and to denominate each colour a distinct speceis we should soon find at least twenty.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

For a different intelligible character would have exhibited a different empirical character; and, when we say that, in spite of the course which his whole former life has taken, the offender could have refrained from uttering the falsehood, this means merely that the act was subject to the power and authority—permissive or prohibitive—of reason.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Now in the country, people live so much more out of doors, even children, and even in the winter.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

En fin, 20 mi querido amigo, por si inadvertidamente ha hablado de esto con alguien, le recuerdo que es un secreto de familia, y con
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Are there any new genetic engineering developments effectively clinically available?
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

In the midst of this agitation, the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill being under discussion, Edgar Cowan, a Pennsylvania Democrat, moved to strike out the word "male," and thus precipitated a debate which occupied three entire days in the Senate.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Espinosa, Gaspar de, explores Central America, 29 - 30 , 42 .
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

As they passed the open door, Elizabeth caught a view of this girl’s study.
— from Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by Jean K. (Jean Katherine) Baird

He played the dangerous little spots of light around, amused as the prisoners scrambled for safety, but with no real intention of releasing the deadly electric charge along the paths provided for it.
— from In the Orbit of Saturn by Roman Frederick Starzl

A strenuous resistance to every appearance of lawless power; a spirit of independence carried to some degree of enthusiasm; an inquisitive character to discover, and a bold one to display, every corruption and every error of government; these are the qualities which recommend a man to a seat in the House of Commons, in open and merely popular elections.
— from Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

The man whose duty it was to deliver a letter gave himself as many airs as he who took the part of first lover in the piece; he declared that the inferior parts were as important as the great ones, and deserving equal consideration, as parts of an artistic whole.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Into the girl’s dark eyes came an expression of melancholy, and the corners of her red-lipped mouth drooped.
— from A Prince to Order by Charles Stokes Wayne

She is oddly exclusive and delicate, even chary about herself, but alone with her father she is all childish abandon.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas