The fourth and fifth editions, which do not essentially differ, were published in 1587 and 1620, by Isaac Casaubon.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Mrs. Churchill was unwell—far too unwell to do without him; she had been in a very suffering state (so said her husband) when writing to her nephew two days before, though from her usual unwillingness to give pain, and constant habit of never thinking of herself, she had not mentioned it; but now she was too ill to trifle, and must entreat him to set off for Enscombe without delay.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The several difficulties here discussed, namely, that, though we find in our geological formations many links between the species which now exist and which formerly existed, we do not find infinitely numerous fine transitional forms closely joining them all together.
— 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

far extended, widely distributed , Pa 8. wīdscofen scattered far and wide , B 936.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

It would, in fact, be a bad look-out if the cardinal fact in the life of man, his ethical worth, that worth which counts for eternity, were dependent upon anything the attainment of which is so much a matter of chance as is the case with dogmas, religious doctrines, and philosophical theories.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Athos smiled, and his fine eye was dimmed by a tear.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Three kinds of elves are mentioned in the Edda : the black dwarfs, and brownies, who both dwelt under ground, and the fair elves, who dwelt in Fairyland or Alfheim.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Thou vile man must be a creature of the Factory, else why dost thou want to take hold of the hand of the woman of a good family?
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

The valet’s sleepy, frightened exclamation, “What do you want?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Ability is not fortune, else why does genius slave?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

The Abbé Paramelle—a French ecclesiastic who devoted himself for some years to this subject and was extensively employed as a well-finder—states, in his work on Fountains, that in the course of thirty-four years he had pointed out more than ten thousand subterranean springs, and though his geological speculations were often erroneous, the highest scientific authorities in Europe have testified to the great practical value of his methods, and the almost infallible certainty of his predictions.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

[100] ‘that a sum of £250 per annum should be paid to the present Lord Almoner’s Reader out of the University Chest,’ and that he should be authorized to receive a fee of £2. 2 s. in each term for each course of lectures from every student attending them, provided he declared in writing his readiness to acquiesce in certain regulations, of which the first was: ‘That it shall be his ordinary duty to reside within the precincts of the University for eighteen weeks during term time in every academical year, and to give three courses of lectures—viz.
— from Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere by John Willis Clark

An enormous mass of pleadings, replies, replications, rejoinders, and apostilles was the result, which few eyes were destined to read, and least of all those to whom they were nominally addressed.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 16: 1569-70 by John Lothrop Motley

Frances E. Willard died 1898.
— from Leaves of Life, for Daily Inspiration by Margaret Bird Steinmetz

Claws became interlocked, and they fell each with distended crest, like a gilt-edged cloudlet following the setting sun.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

So when Valentin, who had a talent for engraving, was discovered by some one who understood his genius, and could make use of it, and was offered a place in the great, gay city, Mère Giraud formed an ambitious plan.
— from Mère Giraud's Little Daughter by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In case you should not be familiar enough with Darwin's work to understand my allusions, I will enter a little more deeply into the matter in a few sentences.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

It is a red-brick building with a fine east window decorated with stone tracery.
— from Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney by John Cunningham Geikie