But here, at any rate, in this poor Norse theatre, one looks with interest on the first transformation, so mysterious and abstruse, of human Chaos into something of articulate Cosmos; witnesses the wild and strange birth-pangs of Human Society, and reflects that without something similar (little as men expect such now), no Cosmos of human society ever was got into existence, nor can ever again be.
— from Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle

Cratogeomys castanops clarkii (Baird) may occur along the Río Grande in extreme northwestern Coahuila.
— from Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Cratogeomys castanops, in Coahuila, México by Rollin H. (Rollin Harold) Baker

A bull-feast given here to divert the Emperor as he passed through, must have excited many pleasing sensations, while the inhabitants sate on seats once occupied by the masters of the world; and what is more worth wonder, fate at the feet of a Transal Page 122 pine Cæsar , for so the sovereign of Germany is even now called by his Milanese subjects in common discourse; and when one looks upon the arms of Austria, a spread eagle, and recollects that when the Roman empire was divided, the old eagle was split, one face looking toward the East, the other toward the West, in token of shared possession, it affects one; and calls up classic imagery to the mind.
— from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Hester Lynch Piozzi

"Stop," said the judge, with becoming gravity, "this will not do; the evidence of the ghost is excellent, none can speak with a clearer cause of knowledge to any thing which befell him during life.
— from Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot by Walter Scott

These, with the thousands both North and South, misled and befooled by them, form the formidable opposition with which the Government is even now closing in a life-or-death encounter.
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

this way [ Beckoning to Mrs. Gerald .]—important events now call on me, and prevent my staying longer with this company.
— from Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Thomas Morton

"But we had to come here and buy our base in order to be part of the financial game in Europe," Nogami continued, not missing a beat.
— from Project Daedalus by Thomas Hoover

"Not less worthy of panegyric are those who, since the days of Ptolemaeus, have succeeded by an incredible effort of genius in exploring new countries and islands.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various