This rises up from the branch or arm of the tree whereon it grows, with a woody stem, putting itself into sundry branches, and they again divided into many other smaller twigs, interlacing themselves one within another, very much covered with a greyish green bark, having two leaves set at every joint, and at the end likewise, which are somewhat long and narrow, small at the bottom, but broader towards the end.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Petrels are the most aerial and oceanic of birds, yet in the quiet Sounds of Tierra del Fuego, the Puffinuria berardi, in its general habits, in its astonishing power of diving, its manner of swimming, and of flying when unwillingly it takes flight, would be mistaken by any one for an auk or grebe; nevertheless, it is essentially a petrel, but with many parts of its organisation profoundly modified.
— 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

OUR HOUSEKEEPING It was a strange condition of things, the honeymoon being over, and the bridesmaids gone home, when I found myself sitting down in my own small house with Dora; quite thrown out of employment, as I may say, in respect of the delicious old occupation of making love.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

This ally of Tom's was indeed a desperate hero in the sight of the boys, and feared as one who dealt in magic, or something approaching thereto.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

They cannot always satisfy those who are happy or distressed because the highest expression of happiness or distress is most often silence.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If a single tree withers away, or let us say a single cow dies, it makes one sorry, but what will it be, good man, if the whole world crumbles into dust?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

how stupidly it’s all done, it makes one sick, though it’s not one’s business!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is so little difference between the two states in other respects, and the contract of government is so completely dissolved by despotism, that the despot is master only so long as he remains the strongest; as soon as he can be expelled, he has no right to complain of violence.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To the one whose first child he was and the one who waited to be his wife, Peter meant everything good that life had for them, and in their terror [342] that he might be taken away their imaginations ran ahead, as they always do in moments of such poignant anxiety, and they were afraid to look out of the window in case they should see Death, the black camel, kneeling at the gate.
— from The Sins of the Children: A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton

The Elements of the Airplane Camera. —Disregarding its means of suspension, the airplane camera proper consists essentially of lens , camera body , shutter , and plate or film holding and changing box .
— from Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives

I did it my own sef.
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

Father, what DOES it mean?" Obediently Simeon Holly told the story then, more fully than he had told it before.
— from Just David by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

He fully recognized the advance of science with the growth of the world, and was always prompt to welcome any valuable discovery in medicine or surgery.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe

In many instances the chouchas and bazinas are found combined in one monument, and sometimes a regular dolmen is mounted on steps similar to those of a bazina, as shown in the annexed woodcut, representing one existing halfway between Constantine and Bona.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

Such is the difference between a vital and mechanical mind in the history and philosophy of science; and the difference is more observable still when we come to consider the deep and constant enthusiasm, the persisting, penetrating genius of the practical discoverer, as contrasted with the cold and uncreative memory-monger and reasoning machine, who too often passes himself off as the real savant .
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, July 1850 by Various