For—overlooking the effect of natural selection to foster impulses tending to the preservation of the race rather than the pleasure of the individual, and granting that every sentient organism tends to adapt itself to its environment, in such a manner as to acquire instincts of some value in guiding it to pleasure and away from pain—it by no means follows that in the human organism one particular kind of adaptation, that which proceeds by unconscious modification of instinct, is to be preferred to that other kind of adaptation which is brought about by conscious comparison and inference.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Kun akuy manubya, kuntúdu giyud ang ákung kasal, When I become a bride, my wedding will be on a grand scale.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

May it burn a breast full of woes!
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Nicias connected the two islands by a bridge.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

In the year 1016, [16] Edmund Ironsides reigning over the West Saxons, Canute the Dane bringing his navy into the west part of the bridge, cast a trench about the city of London, and then attempted to have won it by assault, but the citizens repulsed him, and drove them from their walls.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Then in my madness I essayed the door; It gave; and through a stormy glare, a heat As from a seventimes-heated furnace, I, Blasted and burnt, and blinded as I was, With such a fierceness that I swooned away—
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Now that the skilful beaver, Is but a body void of spirit, From whomsoever I might hear it, I would believe it never.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

He led me to an inner chamber where I beheld a battery of twenty radium pumps any one of which was equal to the task of furnishing all Mars with the atmosphere compound.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

"Silent Mother with stony heart," I prayed, "Thou becamest filled with life at the request of Thy beloved devotee Ramakrishna; why dost Thou not also heed the wails of this yearning son of Thine?" My aspiring zeal increased boundlessly, accompanied by a divine peace.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

A few minutes more, and the train runs into Bozeman, a beautifully situated and flourishing little city of twenty years' growth.
— from Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad by John Hyde

Separation is brought about by the combination of two methods.
— from The Story of a Loaf of Bread by T. B. (Thomas Barlow) Wood

Till the ways are dry and dusty, and the grass is burnt and brown; And forever through my dreaming come the great waves' lash and leap, And the salt wind, the sea-wind, the wind upon the deep.
— from Spun-yarn and Spindrift by Norah M. (Norah Mary) Holland

It is possible also that a real increase in the production of red corpuscles is brought about by repeated applications of massage, as will be seen later on.
— from Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

So to the office, and there very busy till about noon comes Sir W. Warren, and he goes and gets a bit of meat ready at the King's Head for us, and I by and by thither, and we dined together, and I am not pleased with him about a little business of Tangier that I put to him to do for me, but however, the hurt is not much, and his other matters of profit to me continue very likely to be good.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

The children of God will enter in, by and by, through those pearly gates, into that city of gold,—"where they need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light."
— from The Carpenter's Daughter by Susan Warner

And, urging on his horse, leaping in the saddle like a wine-skin inflated by a blast of anger, he galloped off in the direction of Sedan.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

They've been after him ever since, and almost had him when we found him, injured by a blow which he received in an ugly fall earlier in the night.
— from Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by James Oliver Curwood