We wish, however, to confine ourselves to the nutritional disorders, first in their relationship one to the other, and second, as a group of deficiency diseases, due to a lack of vitamines of various kinds.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

If, in our diagram, we suppose the amount of change represented by each successive group of diverging dotted lines to be very great, the forms marked a14 to p14, those marked b14 and f14, and those marked o14 to m14, will form three very distinct genera.
— 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

And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

V. be concave &c. adj.; retire, cave in. render concave &c. adj.; depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge, gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“Alas!” replied the Castilian, “that justice is no longer done to the wretched Zelos; his honours are blasted, and his reputation canker-bitten by the venomous tooth of slander.” He then proceeded to unfold his misfortunes, as they have already been explained in the former part of these memoirs; at the recapitulation of which, the heart of Melvil, being intendered by his own calamities, was so deeply affected, that he re-echoed the groans of Don Diego, and wept over his sufferings with the most filial sympathy.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The goddess of death; daughter of Loke.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

At Francis Allen's on the Christmas-eve, ­ The game of forfeits done ­ the girls all kiss'd Beneath the sacred bush and past away ­ The parson Holmes, the poet Everard Hall, The host, and I sat round the wassail-bowl, Then half-way ebb'd: and there we held a talk, How all the old honour had from Christmas gone, Or gone, or dwindled down to some odd games In some odd nooks like this; till I, tired out With cutting eights that day upon the pond, Where, three times slipping from the outer edge, I bump'd the ice into three several stars, Fell in a doze; and half-awake I heard The parson taking wide and wider sweeps, Now harping on the church-commissioners, 1 Now hawking at Geology and schism; Until I woke, and found him settled down Upon the general decay of faith Right thro' the world, "at home was little left, And none abroad: there was no anchor, none, To hold by".
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Patten , William G. Goldglove Gid, the man of grit; or, Desperate Durg’s desperate scheme.
— from The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels Given to the New York Public Library By Dr. Frank P. O'Brien by New York Public Library

[26] Sir W. Codrington, who acted with great gallantry at the Alma, and who proved himself a most careful and excellent Brigadier and a zealous General of Division, denied at the time, in a letter which came under my notice, that he was at all discomposed by the untoward events of the 8th of September.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

She was looking her best that night, with the bridal rose on her cheeks and the love-light in her eyes; even gruff old Doctor Dave gave her an approving glance, and told his wife, as they drove home together, that that red-headed wife of the boy's was something of a beauty.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Why she did not renounce the true culprit as one on whom all godly teachings were wasted, and, adopting the indisputable vantage-ground of heredity, carry the war into the enemy's country, ascribing Leander's shortcomings to his Yerby blood, and with stern and superior joy proclaiming that he was neither kith nor kin of hers, she wondered afterward, for this valid ground of defence did not occur to her then.
— from The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 by Mary Noailles Murfree

Mr Miller waved his hands in a gesture of divine despair, spun round, darted up the aisle, turned, and bounded back.
— from The Little Warrior by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The other great silences, those of death, grief, or destiny, do not belong to us.
— from The Treasure of the Humble by Maurice Maeterlinck

Accordingly on Monday, October 20, 1788, “a number of officers of the late American army and several gentlemen of distinction” dined together at the Coffee House in commemoration of these two great events.
— from Old Taverns of New York by W. Harrison (William Harrison) Bayles

Wherein if we can show the poet's nobleness, by setting him before his other competitors, among whom as principal challengers step forth the moral philosophers, whom methinketh I see coming towards me with a sullen gravity, as though they could not abide vice by daylight, rudely clothed for to witness outwardly their contempt of outward things, with books in their hands against glory, whereto they set their names, sophistically speaking against subtlety, and angry with any man in whom they see the foul fault of anger; these men casting largess as they go, of definitions, divisions, and distinctions, with a scornful interrogative, do soberly ask, whether it be possible to find any path, so ready to lead a man to virtue, as that which teacheth what virtue is?
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

He is playing a game of devilish duplicity, pretending to help the Carlist cause and intriguing at the same time with the Government.
— from Sarita, the Carlist by Arthur W. Marchmont