Rubbish proper is that out of which the life, so far at least as we can see, is gone; and this loss of life has rendered it useless, so that it cannot even help the growth of life in other things.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

Then the wind would blow, and work under the canvas, and tug at the ends, until it succeeded in rolling it up, so that it could expose what was beneath.
— from Five Acres Too Much A truthful elucidation of the attractions of the country, and a careful consideration of the question of profit and loss as involved in amateur farming, with much valuable advice and instruction to those about purchasing large or small places in the rural districts by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

In the Cœlodrymida, however, where the distal ends of the branches by anastomosing form the lattice-mantle, the spherical surface of this latter is armed with numerous thin spathillæ or radial bristles (often zig-zag or spinulate), and each bristle usually bears at the distal end a small anchor with two, three, or four recurved teeth; the outer convex edge of these teeth is usually smooth, the inner concave edge denticulate.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel