Toward the end of her reign there was among the feudatory princes Kung Kung, whose functions were the administration of punishment.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Nevertheless some slight amount of change may, I think, be attributed to the direct action of the conditions of life—as, in some cases, increased size from amount of food, colour from particular kinds of food and from light, and perhaps the thickness of fur from climate.
— 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

148 This was Erasistratus’s favourite principle, known in Latin as the “horror vacui” and in English as “Nature’s abhorrence of a vacuum,” although these terms are not an exact translation of the Greek.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

For greater security cows were, after returning from pasture, kept in stalls during the night and let out again in the morning.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Every known authority on the subject, from Pliny to Gildas, was carefully considered; every learned pilgrim to Rome was commissioned by Bede to ransack the archives and to make copies of papal decrees and royal letters; and to these were added the testimony of abbots who could speak from personal knowledge of events or repeat the traditions of their several monasteries.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

For this purpose it is enough to lead you to distinguish between our acquired ideas and our natural feelings; for feeling precedes knowledge; and since we do not learn to seek what is good for us and avoid what is bad for us, but get this desire from nature, in the same way the love of good and the hatred of evil are as natural to us as our self-love.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He turned to Mitya, and delivered himself in a loud, firm, dignified voice: “Ex-Lieutenant Karamazov, it is my duty to inform you that you are charged with the murder of your father, Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, perpetrated this night....”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For payment kronen were used, drawn from Vienna.
— from In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf

It has also an extra terminal flagellum (Poche, Keysselitz).
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

For practical knowledge of trees and shrubs, indigenous or exotic—to know how to plant and what to plant—to know what to avoid in the practice of modern blunderers—to know the true theory and practice of Landscape-gardening, reduced to writing, after ample analysis—turn we to those books of solid value of the three great luminaries of modern garden-craft, Gilpin, Repton, Loudon.
— from Garden-Craft Old and New by John Dando Sedding

We should look upon them as the last will and testament of our holy Founder, and by faithful practice keep them inviolably.
— from Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal by Chantal, Jeanne-Françoise de, Saint

“Now, Briney, I suppose Father Philemy knows everything.”
— from The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

For Pen knew more than the other girls supposed.
— from Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade

The Mosquitos inhabit 'the whole coast from Pearl Key Lagoon to Black River, and along the banks of the Wawa and Wanx, or Wanks Rivers for a great distance inland.' Bell , in Lond.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

He sprang to his feet, pulled Koltsoff to his knees, and as he stood thus the door was pushed wide and Anne Wellington stepped across the threshold.
— from Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by Lawrence Perry