-catching fish and crabs in New Guinea and Tierra del Fuego.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

Over-fondness for a child is not generally thought to be for its advantage; and, if there be any guess to be made from appearances, surely that character we call selfish is not the most promising for happiness.
— from Human Nature, and Other Sermons by Joseph Butler

Cortez more reioyced of the Embassage, than of the gold and presents, knowing thereby that Mutezuma hys enimies desired his friendshippe: but Mutezuma and hys counsell liked not the matter, for although Coatelicamatl is no great Lord, yet his people are good souldyers, and his countrey full of wildernesse, of Rockes and Mountaynes.
— from The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade by Francisco López de Gómara

Most beautiful flowers are cultivated in nursery gardens and hothouses, and are sent all over the world in such quantities that Ghent has been called "The City of Flowers."
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Belgium by George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond

The first three months of the year 1813 were spent by Napoleon in vigorous preparation for a campaign in Northern Germany.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

That it was a wise, just, and providential act, fraught with good for all concerned, is not generally conceded throughout the country.
— from U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses by United States. Presidents

The sulphate of soda, when taken from the furnace and cooled, is next ground in a mill with rather more than its weight of chalk, and about half its weight of coal.
— from The Boy's Book of Industrial Information by Elisha Noyce