Akkas, a dwarfish race of Central Africa, dwelling in scattered settlements to the north-west of Lake Albert Nyanza, about lat.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

On their different rates of change.
— 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

The very deeps did rot: O Christ!
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

You remember Joseph de Raudeville, of course.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If men were to persist in teaching nothing but the literature of the dead languages in a community where everyone is habitually led to make vehement exertions to augment or to maintain his fortune, the result would be a very polished, but a very dangerous, race of citizens.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And then remember the cut and arrangement of their hair, generally milky white, either from age or by the aid of powder; their smoothly-shaven cheek and chin; and the peculiar expression superinduced in the eye and the whole countenance, by the governing ideas of the period, ideas which we are wont to style old-fashioned, but which furnished, nevertheless, for the time being, very useful and definite rules of conduct.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The painful and even dangerous rite of circumcision was alone capable of repelling a willing proselyte from the door of the synagogue.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Behind the mansion was the usual double row of cabins called the "quarters."
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

[The translation of this poem by Miss M. A. Biggs contains a note “supplied by Dr. Rostafinski of Cracow” as to the scientific names of the different mushrooms mentioned by Mickiewicz. (1) "
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

The mountains are accumulations of enormous rocks tumbled one upon the other, and round the awful labyrinth of craters one sees nothing but dismantled ramparts, or columns of pointed rocks like cathedral spires issuing from the chaos.
— from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion

There they remained most of the day, resting on couches of balsam and spruce, covered with blankets, and passing the time talking, mending their moccasins and dozing.
— from The Island of Yellow Sands: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill

-138- ——: Astronomia Instaurata, Libris sex comprehensa, qui De Revolutionibus Orbium Cœlestium, inscribuntur.
— from The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson

Neither the slimy gutter nor the deep rut of carreta wheels stayed our advance; our horses leaped over, or went sweltering through them.
— from The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

When December winds, Hungry and fell, were chasing the dry leaves, Shrill o'er the valley at the dead of night, 'Twas sweet, for watchers such as I, to mark How bright, how very bright, the stars would shine Through the deep rifts of congregated clouds; How very distant seemed the azure sky; And when at morn the lazy, weeping fog, Long lingering, loath to leave the slumbrous lake, Whitened, diffusive, as the rising sun Shed on the western hills his rosiest beams, I thought of thee, and thought our peaceful vale Had lost one heart that could have felt its peace, One eye that saw its beauties, and one soul That made its peace and beauty all her own.
— from Chats in the Book-Room by Horace N. Pym

The book in which he explained his theory, “De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium,” was not finished till a day or two before he died.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

And often, with a glimmering light, I went into the midnight hold, as into old vaults and catacombs; and creeping between damp ranges of casks, penetrated into its farthest recesses.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville