Habit in producing constitutional peculiarities, and use in strengthening, and disuse in weakening and diminishing organs, appear in many cases to have been potent in their effects.
— 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

A Bumper Hun Harvest Is Predicted — Central Press Association.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918 by Various

But when, instead of this sudden outbreak of an entire population against an unexpected enemy, a genuine hunt is projected, certain preparations are made before starting.
— from The Horses of the Sahara and the Manners of the Desert by E.‏ (Eugène) Daumas

His infida probas corda pavoribus; Et peccare vetas, aut pretium mori: Verum terribiles quid parient minae?
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman

The head itself possesses considerable powers of movement, by means of a short neck.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

Irremediable, remediless, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irremedicable, irrecoverable, hopeless, incurable, past cure, past mending.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

The same principle is displayed in the mutual relations of the parts of organisms, every part being nourished in proportion to its use or function, a balancing of the relative powers of the parts being thus effected, and the organism "fitted as a whole to its existence by having its parts continuously proportioned to the requirements."
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

Hermaphrodism, in politics, consists precisely in exclusion, because exclusion always restores, in some form or other and in the same degree, the idea excluded; and M. Blanc would be greatly surprised were he to be shown, by his continual mixture in his book of the most contrary principles,— authority and right, property and communism, aristocracy and equality, labor and capital, reward and sacrifice, liberty and dictatorship, free inquiry and religious faith,—that the real hermaphrodite, the double- sexed publicist, is himself.
— from System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

Nevertheless, she was troubled over receiving constant favors from even such good neighbors as the Johnstones, for she had not yet learned that in the Scottish-Canadian countryside a horse and vehicle on the highway is practically common property.
— from 'Lizbeth of the Dale by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

Irrecoverable, incorrigible, hopeless, irreparable, past cure, past hope, remediless, irretrievable, irreversible, incurable, past mending.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

But if we cannot tell with certainty why good rugs fit all places and circumstances, while any other thing of mortal manufacture must have its place carefully prepared for it, we may perhaps assume to know why the most beautiful of modern carpets are not as easily managed and as successful.
— from Principles of Home Decoration, With Practical Examples by Candace Wheeler