But as the original species (I) differed largely from (A), standing nearly at the extreme points of the original genus, the six descendants from (I) will, owing to inheritance, differ considerably from the eight descendants from (A); the two groups, moreover, are supposed to have gone on diverging in different directions.
— 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

ESCENA IV SCENE IV Don Juan, la sombra de doña Inés, Centellas y Avellaneda, dormidos Don Juan, the ghost of Doña Inés, Centellas and Avellaneda (both asleep) SOMBRA:
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

And it’s easy enough to talk of Master Jim, after a good spread, two hundred feet above the sea-level, with a box of decent cigars handy, on a blessed evening of freshness and starlight that would make the best of us forget we are only on sufferance here and got to pick our way in cross lights, watching every precious minute and every irremediable step, trusting we shall manage yet to go out decently in the end—but not so sure of it after all—and with dashed little help to expect from those we touch elbows with right and left.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

In the same year, 1775, in which Burke's magnificent "Conciliation" oration was delivered, Patrick Henry made a remarkable little speech before a gathering of delegates in Virginia.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

And there was not only the actual debt; there was the certainty that in his present position he must go on deepening it.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

While these repairs were being made, the old gentleman often dropped in to consult Lena’s preferences.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

This may be heard constantly going on deck in pleasant weather; and we had employment, during a great part of the time, for three hands in drawing and knotting yarns, and making them spun-yarn.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

At half-past seven next morning, in the first glimmer of daylight, I found him standing by my bedside in his dressing-gown.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

21st round—knit 2 plain, at the beginning of the 1st and 3rd needles; knit the next 2 together; knit together the 4th and 3rd, before the end of the 2nd and 4th needles; knit the last stitches plain; go on decreasing in this way until the purled stitches meet.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Then we either fry on their stone griddle or drown in the lake.
— from Under the Andes by Rex Stout

When it did not transpire in chance words she caught it in their glances or divined it in the mental atmosphere.
— from The Wild Olive: A Novel by Basil King

The struggle was a long and severe one, especially near where the generals fought, for Pantauchus, who was admitted to be the strongest and bravest of the generals of Demetrius, in the pride of his heart challenged Pyrrhus to a single combat, while Pyrrhus, who yielded to none of the kings of the age in strength and courage, and who wished to be thought a true son of Achilles by valour as well as by descent, rushed forward beyond the front ranks to meet Pantauchus.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

The gas over desk is lighted .
— from Three Plays: The Fiddler's House, The Land, Thomas Muskerry by Padraic Colum

4 The only tribes of which I have not seen representatives inhabit the region of the gulf of Davao in Mindanao.
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

The Cree from the Gray Otter drove in on his way north.
— from The Honor of the Big Snows by James Oliver Curwood

The explosion carried them away like grains of dust into the abyss of universal doubt.
— from The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 1 by Alfred de Musset

They never venture from their retreats while the faintest gleam of daylight is visible; but at the approach of night they become exceedingly active, springing from tree to tree with all the dexterity of the squirrel.
— from Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

For a moment the uproar ceased, and in a spirit of bravado René stepped out into the moonlight and made a gesture of derision into the air.
— from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart

But as these two groups have gone on diverging in character from the type of their parents, the new species (F14) will not be directly intermediate between them, but rather between types of the two groups; and every naturalist will be able to call such cases before his mind.
— 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