The contralto will not care to catechise the bass; the tenor will foresee no embarrassing dearth of remark in evenings spent with the lovely soprano.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

And just as there are various degrees of rapidity in evaporation, so there are various degrees of rapidity in diffusion: "the range also in the degree of diffusive mobility exhibited by different substances appears to be as wide as the scale of vapour-tensions."
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

“There are rather different opinions regarding its exact shape.
— from The Children's Tabernacle; Or, Hand-Work and Heart-Work by A. L. O. E.

There was a lull in the movements of Russia in Central Asia until after the Crimean War of 1854-56, which, while temporarily checking the designs of Russia in Europe, seems to have stimulated her progress in the East.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

His education had been carefully attended to; and his taste for the arts introduced a degree of refinement into English society such as this country had never before beheld.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 2 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

Dickens, on receiving it, evidently sent it the round of his friends, and it then remained in John Forster's possession until his death.
— from Chats in the Book-Room by Horace N. Pym

And so the society is representative of a little public whose taste is, broadly speaking, conservative and official; and the noise of the strife outside its doors only reaches its ears slowly, and with a deadened sound.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

THE DISSOLUTION OF RELIGIONS IN EXISTING SOCIETIES.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

They feed them on minced meat, either dressed or raw, insects, eggs, soaked bread, and fruit.
— from The Natural History of Cage Birds Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching Them. by Johann Matthäus Bechstein

Even schoolteachers have two days of rest in every seven, thought Mrs. Burton to herself, and no one doubts that they deserve them.
— from Romance of California Life Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous by John Habberton