Species is that which is comprehended under genus, as man is comprehended under animal.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Giggyng , sb. clattering, C. Gigour , sb. musician, S.—OF. giguëor (Low Lat. gigatorem ), from OF. gigue (Low Lat. giga ), a musical instrument; cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

If he had no regard for her before, this Action would have bound him to her for ever; but there was no Occasion for Ties or Obligations, his Inclination towards her was sufficient; in fine, they applied their Troth to each other, which Mary Read said, she look’d upon to be as good a Marriage, in Conscience, as if it had been done by a Minister in Church; and to this was owing her great Belly, which she pleaded to save her Life.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Further, it has PR Newswire, many other newspapers in full- text, clipping service, online charting for investors, and gateways to other services like Info Globe (Globe and Mail in Canada).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

"As the gentleman asked me, I could not help answering him," said the girl.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Of these fearful examples, most, as I believe, are taken from the class of tyrants and kings and potentates and public men, for they are the authors of the greatest and most impious crimes, because they have the power.
— from Gorgias by Plato

The Learner, who wishes to try the question fairly , whether this little book does, or does not, supply the materials for a most interesting mental recreation, is earnestly advised to adopt the following Rules:— (1) Begin at the beginning , and do not allow yourself to gratify a mere idle curiosity by dipping into the book, here and there.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

There is a dwarfish size of men and women, which is almost constantly so gross and massive in comparison of their height, that they present us with a very disagreeable image.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Marija went home, singing out loud all the way, and was just in time to join Ona and her stepmother as they were setting out to go and make inquiry concerning the house.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Henceforth he devoted his life to preach the grace of God as manifested in Christ Jesus, to his brethren in season and out of season.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

This sad truth, perfectly understood by the auditors, plunged them into dull grief, A material impossibility cannot be discussed; it must be submitted to.
— from The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border by Gustave Aimard

Charles II made a great and most important change with respect to the Privy Council.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

And this greater and more important change than the world has ever seen, this slow emergence of the long-subverted human female to full racial equality, has been going on about us full long enough to be observed.
— from Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

But as I gazed about me, I could not bring myself to believe that the wealth of any subject in Europe could have supplied the princely magnificence which burned and blazed around.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The local legend, according to which a passage exists, linking Graywater and Monkswell, is confirmed by the monk's plan."
— from The Hand of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

Great heaps of chalk, by this time partly overgrown with grass, also mark its course, and in the distance, crowned as many of them are with telegraph poles, they look by twilight curiously and awfully like so many Calvarys.
— from The Brighton Road: The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Could they take bail for a riot, a dastardly attack by a mob of cowards on a poor defenseless woman, the gentlest and most inoffensive creature in England?
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

This was one reason for holding this theory, and another reason is contained in the fact that all germs are moist in character, and water is the principle of what is moist.”
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

For instance, the issue of the Kladderadatsch , the German Punch , published just before the attack on the King, contained a paragraph of the grossest and most insulting character, completing a series of abominably scurrilous attacks on His Majesty.
— from His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII by Marie Belloc Lowndes