This is not very exciting news to men whose time is consumed in the engrossing occupation of earning a living; but scientific facts have a curious habit of lurking in the background, sometimes a long while, and then suddenly stepping up to the footlights in the form of facts or inventions of a kind that are exceedingly important,—even from the standpoint of making a living, or at least of enduring the conditions of living.
— from Invention: The Master-key to Progress by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

On the internal surface, the toothed suture is not visible, except near the base of the shell, owing to the overlapping of the alæ.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

The wretched finds relief in the certainty that death will end his misery; therefore, that state is not very enviable, nor this intolerable.
— from A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father by William Cooper