Groups of species increase in numbers slowly, and endure for unequal periods of time; for the process of modification is necessarily slow, and depends on many complex contingencies.
— 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

J'en profite d'ailleurs pour faire un peu de pub pour un auteur CyLibris: La Toile de Jean-Pierre Balpe me semble aujourd'hui la meilleure illustration de ce débat.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The members of the Kāraikkāttar sub-division in the Udaiyarpālaiyam tāluk are rather looked down on by other Vellālans as being a mixed race, and are also somewhat contemptuously called Yeruttu-māttu (pack-bullocks), because, in their professional calling, they formerly used pack-bullocks.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Here we passed the night, and on the following day Noguchi procured for us packhorses and coolies at the government rates, which were 1 horse load 464 cash, 1 coolie load 233 cash, for a distance of ten miles.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Cet auteur dit que pour comprendre comme Lipse, il a pu composer un ouvrage le premier jour de sa vie, il faut s'imaginer, que ce premier jour n'est pas celui de sa naissance charnelle, mais celui au quel il a commence d'user de la raison; il veut que c'ait ete a l'age de neuf ans; et il nous veut persuader que ce fut en cet age, que Lipse fit un poeme.—Le tour est ingenieux, &c. &c.) the day he was born:—They should have wiped it up, said my uncle Toby, and said no more about it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Pray, gentlemen, added they, don’t forget to leave somewhat behind you for us poor devils to drink your healths.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Des correspondants (Afrique, Asie, Antilles, Amérique du Sud, région Pacifique) me disent apprécier la formule d'abonnement par courrier électronique car elle leur permet en récupérant un seul message de lire, de s'informer, de faire une présélection des sites qu'ils ou elles consulteront par la suite.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The doctrine of the Trinity is sarcastically introduced rather as the strange doctrine of a new religion, than the established tenet of a faith universally prevalent.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

—To some extent this treaty seems to have prevented assaults from Jolo, but in 1730 the Moros of Tawi Tawi fell upon Paragua and the Calamianes, and in 1731 another expedition from the south spent nearly a whole year cruising and destroying among the Bisayas.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

An ancient poet has handed down to us a story in verse setting forth the exploits of Eustace the monk, who, after having thrown aside his frock, embraced the life of a robber, and only abandoned it to become Admiral of France under Philip Augustus.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

But the {286} power of the chief consul was not much checked by this restriction, for the discussion on such subjects was only to take place on his own requisition, and always in secret committee; so that the greatest hinderance of despotism, the weight of public opinion formed upon public debate, was totally wanting.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

She felt uneasily proud of him.
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

I have seen him puffing from the mild and inoffensive cheroot, to the luxurious hookah—the latter, too, as he confessed, only because it was an Oriental growth, and the luxury of Eastern people harmonized with his own fondness for unlimited profusion.
— from Wagner as I Knew Him by Ferdinand Praeger

"He was my father, Uncle Paul, and he was always kind to me; whatever his faults may have been I cannot listen to a word against him."
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

"And I," said Loris, confidingly, "am following up [Pg 242] a far more interesting subject.
— from Rabbi and Priest: A Story by Milton Goldsmith

[109] For uncritical praise of Arnold de Villa Nova, see Figuier , L'Alchimie et les Alchimistes , 3ème edit.
— from The Warfare of Science by Andrew Dickson White

[534] The letter read, "This legislation is founded upon principles as ancient as free government itself, and in accordance with them has simply declared that the people of a Territory like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits.
— from Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson

I declare to thee were I in the dawn of youth I would keep my faith unto Pryderi, and unto thee also will I keep it.”
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

My escape from sudden death, although easily avoided from seasonable discovery of the danger, served as a timely warning, which kept me in careful watch for unknown perils.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile