As descent has universally been used in classing together the individuals of the same species, though the males and females and larvae are sometimes extremely different; and as it has been used in classing varieties which have undergone a certain, and sometimes a considerable amount of modification, may not this same element of descent have been unconsciously used in grouping species under genera, and genera under higher groups, all under the so-called natural system?
— 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

In the next scene, when the wicked Count is weighed, the scroll of his evil deeds far outweighs that of his good actions, until the Saint casts into the scale a chalice which the prince had once given to his church.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

There is another element of power added to the anti-slavery movement, of great importance; it is the conviction, becoming every day more general and universal, that slavery must be abolished at the south, or it will demoralize and destroy liberty at the north.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

He gazed attentively upon the spot where it showed itself, and was convinced that He saw a small spark of light, now visible, now disappearing.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Lay long in bed, but most of it angry and scolding with my wife about her warning Jane our cookemayde to be gone and upon that she desires to go abroad to-day to look a place.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The shield in the Visitation book rests upon a mount vert, issuing from waves of the sea, and thereupon placed on either side of the escutcheon a ship of two masts at anchor, the sails furled all proper, the round top or, and from each masthead flying a banner of St. George, and upon the stern of each vessel a lion rampant or, supporting the escutcheon."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

There it stands at this hour, in the black cloth-covering the Sultan sends it yearly; "twenty-seven cubits high;" with circuit, with double circuit of pillars, with festoon-rows of lamps and quaint ornaments: the lamps will be lighted again this night,—to glitter again under the stars.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Byelinsky, as I know on very good authority, used to spend whole evenings with his friends debating and settling beforehand even the minutest, so to speak, domestic, details of the social organisation of the future.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then, half ashamed of himself, for such very low mistrust of Claudia, he boldly walked through the crumbling gateway, and up the steep rise of the bridge.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

They then returned to the quarter-deck, when John, William and Henry amused themselves with the young midshipmen, some of whom were old schoolfellows, and showed them how to go aloft up the shrouds (called by the landsmen rope-ladders) into the mizen-top, whither they followed them a little way, but did not like climbing to get over the top rim, nor did they choose to go through lubber’s hole , which is a way of more safety, used by landsmen, for fear they should be laughed at.
— from The Juvenile Lavater; or, A Familiar Explanation of the Passions of Le Brun Calculated for the Instruction & Entertainment of Young Persons; Interspersed with Moral and Amusing Tales by George Brewer

The two Swedish girls were hysterical with fright, and stolid as the people of northern Europe generally are, under the stress of their experience the young women were almost uncontrollable.
— from Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball

When this sky happens to be for a short time perfectly clear, and the sun reaches the earth without passing through mist, the rain and dewdrops sparkle on the green grass and upon the silken and velvet petals of the myriads of gay flowers more brilliantly than diamonds.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

The first fête was held at Yarmouth Heights, in the grounds and under the superintendence of Captain Rappelje.
— from Humours of '37, Grave, Gay and Grim: Rebellion Times in the Canadas by Kathleen Macfarlane Lizars

Jack continued wildly: "Done for us all; got us all as good as under the sod.
— from Riders of the Silences by Max Brand

Emerging from the park gates and coming upon the entrance to the green, Nance became aware that it would be out of the question to make Linda walk any further and, after a second’s hesitation, she led her across the grass and under the sycamores to Baltazar’s cottage.
— from Rodmoor: A Romance by John Cowper Powys

The more ancient of the Greeks acted upon the same principle.
— from The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius

When the two columns were brought into communication it was immediately decided to make a general attack upon the Spanish position. . . .
— from The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt