Bearing in mind that the mutual relations of organism to organism are of the highest importance, we can see why two areas having nearly the same physical conditions should often be inhabited by very different forms of life; for according to the length of time which has elapsed since new inhabitants entered one region; according to the nature of the communication which allowed certain forms and not others to enter, either in greater or lesser numbers; according or not, as those which entered happened to come in more or less direct competition with each other and with the aborigines; and according as the immigrants were capable of varying more or less rapidly, there would ensue in different regions, independently of their physical conditions, infinitely diversified conditions of life,—there would be an almost endless amount of organic action and reaction,—and we should find, as we do find, some groups of beings greatly, and some only slightly modified,—some developed in great force, some existing in scanty numbers—in the different great geographical provinces of the world.
— 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

Each of them kept looking up at her comfortable rosy face, secretly curious about the delightful feeling she gave them—a sort of warm, supported feeling.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This is never to be found, nor anything very analogous to it, in sensient nature and a dictate from some generalized experience.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

“And if I have come, my dear father,” said Gérard, drawing closer to M. Noirtier, “do not complain, for it is for you that I came, and my journey will be your salvation.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisiême, No. 33, Rue Dunôt, Faubourg St. Germain.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Founders of religions differ from such great deceivers in that they never come out of this state of self deception, or else they have, very rarely, a few moments of enlightenment in which they are overcome by doubt; generally, however, they soothe themselves by ascribing such moments of enlightenment to the evil adversary.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"When younger," said he, "I believed myself destined for some great enterprise.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Women's gentle brain Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention, Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect Than in their countenance.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

thus the vigorous combat wage; No son of Mars descend, for servile gains, To touch the booty, while a foe remains.
— from The Iliad by Homer

About two years afterwards, the French officers employed at the siege of Peschiera, which is eight miles distant from Sirmio, gave a brilliant fête champêtre in this classic retirement, in honour of Catullus, as soon as their military operations against Peschiera had been brought to a successful conclusion.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

There was the thought of what she had done, of the things to which she was a party; there was the sense of power, the satisfaction of ambition, a promise of more things; there was the applause of Volseni as well as the devotion of the Prince; there was, too—it persisted all through her life—the funny, half-childish, and (to a severe eye) urchin-like pleasure in the feeling that these were fine doings for Sophy Grouch, of Morpingham in Essex!
— from Sophy of Kravonia: A Novel by Anthony Hope

The libidinous individual has an increased desire for sexual gratification, the erotic looks chiefly for love.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

[Pg 260] the saliva which drops from small glands in the back of the mouth into the food.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

At the door Frithiof said good-by, and for the first time since the accident Cecil remembered his trouble; in talking of many things she had lost sight of it, but now it came back to her with a swift pang, all the harder to bear because of the happiness of the last half-hour.
— from A Hardy Norseman by Edna Lyall

[48] The gift of miracles, like other gifts, was distinct from sanctifying grace.
— from Sermons on Various Important Subjects Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume by Andrew Lee

Neither can the deepest invention of man find out a more certain way of consistence than to obtain a Royal donation from so great a prince under his great seal, which is the greatest security that may be had in human affairs.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

Ercole, da Ferrara, see Grandi.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 6 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (6 volumes) by Luigi Lanzi

Heroic dosing for several generations has given his tissues a thirst for drugs; and now that the pharmacists have cloaked even the most nauseous remedies, the temptation is to use physic on every occasion.
— from Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence