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Although each nature or disposition is slightly different in some respect from every other disposition, 102 as one blade of grass is different from another, still it is reasonably possible to make some broad classifications for the purpose of considering their points of difference.
— from Retail Shoe Salesmanship by Frank Butterworth
Such eggs not only differ in size but also in the structure of yolk and membranes, although identical animals are developed from each of them.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann
I cannot without horror imagine one thing—that is, that they will compel us to lie an endless number of days in some Saigon.
— from From Libau to Tsushima A narrative of the voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky's fleet to eastern seas, including a detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident by Evgenii Sigizmundovich Politovskii
In her domestic relations with ourselves she showed that exquisite nicety of discrimination in studying our characters, habits and tastes which comes by instinct with women, and which even the longest practice rarely teaches in similar perfection to men.
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins
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