One might have thought that it would have extracted some show of surprise or anger, or other emotion, from Mr Boffin, but it extracted nothing beyond his former comment: 'Quite so, Venus.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Afterwards, when familiarised with the visions of enjoyment so suddenly opened, she could speak more largely to William and Edmund of what she felt; but still there were emotions of tenderness that could not be clothed in words.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

56 They even suppose somewhat of sanctity and prescience to be inherent in the female sex; and therefore neither despise their counsels, 57 nor disregard their responses.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

If, then, animals and plants do vary, let it be ever so slightly or slowly, why should not variations or individual differences, which are in any way beneficial, be preserved and accumulated through natural selection, or the survival of the fittest?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

So do not expect set speeches or studied manners from him, but just the faithful expression of his thoughts and the conduct that springs from his inclinations.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

349 The channa is a kind of sea-perch; “a species of Serranus , either S. scriba or S. cabrilla ” (D’Arcy W. Thompson).
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

And as for all other parts of those generals which we have mentioned, as either sensitive souls or subjects, these of themselves (as naturally irrational) have no common mutual reference one unto another, though many of them contain a mind, or reasonable faculty in them, whereby they are ruled and governed.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

When a fire had been kindled, and nearly every one had given up, this one man, unaided, continued to strive to erect some sort of shelter to protect the defenseless women and children.
— from History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

L'Individualisme économique et social, ses origines, son évolution, ses formes contemporaines.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

There was ample room to store water and provisions, and he quickly saw that even some sort of shelter from the fierce rays of the sun and the often piercing cold of the night might be achieved by judiciously rigging up a tarpaulin.
— from The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy

He admired the graceful energy, and thorough acquaintance with details, with which Lady Everingham superintended schools, organised societies of relief, and the discrimination which she brought to bear upon individual cases of suffering or misfortune.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

WINSETT, R. E. SEE Songs of spiritual power.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Off the Scilly Isles a northeasterly breeze, and the Phoenix crowded all her canvas; when topsails, royals, skyscrapers and all were drawing the men rigged out booms alow and aloft, and by means of them set studding sails out several yards clear of the hull on either side; so on she plowed, her canvas spread out like an enormous fan or a huge albatross all wings.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

Together they approached Tula, whose eyes stared straight out seeing none of the dark faces lifted to hers, she seemed not to see Kit who stopped beside her.
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

E. Smith, Superintendent of Schools, Syracuse, N. Y.; ten Half-hour Drills in School Calisthenics.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution