This has ever been the language of men, and the fear of departing from a supposed sexual character, has made even women of superior sense adopt the same sentiments.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Now all these modified descendants from a single species, are represented as related in blood or descent to the same degree; they may metaphorically be called cousins to the same millionth degree; yet they differ widely and in different degrees from each other.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Not even the monstrosity of color was wanting; for the sunlight came out through the chasm, tinted all orange and purple; while the vivid green of the grass in the valley was reflected more or less upon all objects from the curtain of vapor that still hung overhead, as if loth to take its total departure from a scene so enchantingly beautiful.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The eighteenth century view is that individuals existed first, each with their own special claims and responsibilities; that they deliberately formed a Social State, either by a contract or otherwise; and that then finally they limited their own action out of regard for the interests of the social organism thus arbitrarily produced.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Such opportunities gave a sort of education, and Biñan people were in this way more cultured than the dwellers in remote places, whose only knowledge of their sovereign state was derived from a single Spaniard, the friar curate of their parish.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

He watched her dark figure as she stood there on the edge of the faint darkness, and he waited.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

"Ah! it is a fine death for a sailor!" said Captain Nemo, at last.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

But I had no time to think of the danger, for another stone sang past me as I hung by my hands from the edge of the ledge.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the fourth century of our era Jerome speaks of page 54 having met in Gaul with the Attacotes, descended from a savage Scotch tribe, who fed on human flesh, and that though they possessed great herds of cattle and flocks of sheep, with numbers of pigs, for whom their vast forests afforded excellent grazing grounds 13 ; and though the Scandinavian kitchen-middings have not so far yielded any traces of the practice of cannibalism, Adam of Bremen, who preached Christianity at the court of King Sweyn Ulfson, represents the Danes of his day as barbarians clad in the skins of beasts, chasing the aurochs and the eland, unable to do more than imitate the cries of animals and devouring the flesh of their fellow-men.
— from Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de

The good clergyman was droning, fans and silken skirts were rustling, eyes challenging.
— from The Gorgeous Isle: A Romance; Scene-- Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

"The relay instruments of the LK-745 indicated the destruction by an explosion of the rear rep-ray generator, and that the ship hung stern down for a short space, swinging like a pendulum.
— from Armageddon—2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan

It was a beautiful day for a start, sunny, silent, warm, with great floating clouds filling the sky.
— from The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland

“I—I only opened the door for a second,” she said, “But I saw the bed.
— from The Jervaise Comedy by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford

On looking at the dead face a stranger said: "Daniel Webster, the world without you will be lonesome."
— from American Leaders and Heroes: A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

Here is a vast development from a small seed: but it is a seed cast by the world's Creator and the Body's Head.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies