When either case occurs, it would be easy for natural selection to fit the animal, by some modification of its structure, for its changed habits, or exclusively for one of its several different habits.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

The sounds seemed to have awakened the maids, too, for I could hear their bare feet pattering outside my door.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

This newspaper communication, though aimed at General Grant, reacted on himself, for it closed his military career.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

For instance, Congress has the right of making a general law on bankruptcy, which, however, it neglects to do.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Agricola cum fīliā in casā habitat.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:— “Why, get out as you came in!” Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, “Impossible.” Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:— “There is another thing which bothers me.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It is one of the least corrupted of the episodes, its great popularity having prevented the transforming hand of an editor from introducing Çiva and Vishṇu, or [ 297 ] from effacing the simplicity of the manners it depicts—the prince, for instance, cooks his own food—or from changing the character of Indra, and other old traits.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

There are also verses on the subject as follows: "In considering her present gains, and her future welfare, a courtesan should avoid such persons as have gained their means of subsistence with very great difficulty, as also those who have become selfish and hard-hearted by becoming the favourites of Kings."
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Knead all altogether and when well mixed form into cakes half an inch thick, pinch round the edge, and probe all over with a fork, place some confits in the centre, then a sheet of stiff paper under each cake, place on the baking sheet and bake in an oven of moderate heat.
— from My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec by Various

Leaving Tontz Main de Fer in command here with the greater part of his men, he set out with five for Frontenac, on the 2d of March, 1680, intending to return with supplies to take command again of his party, and to proceed southward.
— from The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

He niver rests save when he's abed, an' not oft then, for I can hear him stirring mony a neet at after he'd earned his sleep."
— from Shameless Wayne: A Romance of the last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe by Halliwell Sutcliffe

599 In times of religious persecution, the language of the New Testament, about the blessedness of tribulation as a pledge of future happiness and a means of preparation for it, comes home to men’s hearts with a reality and force which seem to exceed our present application of it to the troubles and sorrows of ordinary life.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

This was all the feast except sponge cake, which felt like muslin in the fingers; I could have squeezed the whole of it into my mouth.
— from The Morgesons: A Novel by Elizabeth Stoddard

"Fall in!" called Harry, and at the word all the companies fell in line.
— from The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope

If this pretext is sincere, it reflects the greatest honor on Cardinal Wolsey; and if, on the contrary, it is false, it covers his successors with shame.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

I heard him once say, 'I have great merit in being zealous for subordination and the honours of birth; for I can hardly tell who was my grandfather.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

What will make a deathbed easy?—a broken league with sin, a good hope through grace, a lively faith in Christ (H. E. I., 1590–1593).
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

I was still standing balanced with one foot upon the bough and one upon the casement, not daring to budge for fear of attracting their attention, for I could hear them moving stealthily about in the long shadow of the house.
— from The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle