The genetic relationship between Ewe and Shilluk is exceedingly remote at best.
— from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

Beggary—that constant attribute of the highest civilization—hardly exists, and suicide is extremely rare.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

A notice of the various hawks made use of by falconers, and mentioned by Shakespeare, might be here properly introduced, but it will be more convenient to reserve this notice for a separate chapter, and confine our attention for the present to the larger diurnal birds of prey which, like the eagles, are seldom, if ever, reclaimed by man.
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting