All this clearly shows, as Heer has remarked, that they had at this early age progressed considerably in civilisation; and this again implies a long continued previous period of less advanced civilisation, during which the domesticated animals, kept by different tribes in different districts, might have varied and given rise to distinct races.
— 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

Jude 22; in N.T., to hesitate, be in doubt, doubt, Mat. 21.21.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

In order of its dignity, Did man from the crude clay express By sequence, and, all else decreed, He form’d the woman; nor might less Than Sabbath such a work succeed.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

Sorprendido quedó nuestro viajero al ver la especie de caballería andante que aún subsistía en los lugares que 25 visitaba, pero no tuvo ocasión de hacer nuevas preguntas, porque el mismo que era objeto de ellas se les incorporó, diciendo de mal talante: —La Guardia civil ha despachado a tres.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

But these are but foolish troubles and so not to be set to heart, yet it do disturb me mightily these things.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

me oyó, I called to heaven: it did not see, y pues sus puertas me cierra, and since it closes its doors de mis pasos en la tierra to my whole earthly course, responda el cielo, y no yo. let heaven be blamed, not me.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

coli im Darm d. Mensch., In.-Diss., Kgsbg., Pr., 1900.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

Measur'd itself by none, it doth divide Motion to all, counted unto them forth,
— from The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 3 by Dante Alighieri

But to one thing I can pledge my honour, that no small motive and no tender claims of beauty in distress detained me.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

" "Ay, but I assure ye that sma' jug's for cream, an' I dinna doot mysel but 'at there's to be fowerpence worth o' milk this nicht.
— from A Window in Thrums by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

So much elegance on the part of the ladies present would make the party the gem of the season, and the gentlemen in dark dress made a good black enamel setting.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

The work has also been translated into Dutch, Danish, Magyar ( Bard de Mánx ), Russian, Portuguese, Spanish ( El Conde de las Maravillas ), and many other tongues, and an estimate that over one hundred editions have appeared in England, Germany, and America alone, is probably rather under than above the mark.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

In old times it was much more common than now, and every one had some knowledge of it, though in different degrees; moreover it was the sister of other arts now lost.
— from Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Novalis

In Durango, during my sojourn there, a well dressed caballero was frequently in the habit of entering our meson , whom mine host soon pointed out to me as a notorious brigand.
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg

(c) H. Parmentier, Inventaire descriptif des Monuments Ćams de l'Annam .
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir