With pigeons, however, we have another case, namely, the occasional appearance in all the breeds, of slaty-blue birds with two black bars on the wings, white loins, a bar at the end of the tail, with the outer feathers externally edged near their bases with white.
— 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

The stem of the inflorescence was broken by the fall of the plant, and the flowers were growing limp and brown at the edges of the petals.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And overhead, growing larger and brighter, as the earth rolled on its way and the night passed, rose the dazzling star.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Consequently, the twenty-fifth of December was selected as his birthday, because it was the birthday of other Gods, and because it was regarded by the heathen, from time immemorial, as the birthday of Sol, the glorious luminary of heaven, it being the period he is born again into a new year, and "commences again his journey and his life;" and because, also, this epoch was, as Sharon Turner informs us, in his "History of the Anglo-Saxons," the commencement of a new year up to the tenth century.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Being trained to count his own individuality for little, and being accustomed to exposing his life constantly, he gives it up easily enough.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

He struggled madly for life, and by a terrible effort wrenched the tightening fingers away.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

“I always thought it was more like a buttercup almost than even a real one—and I NEVER thought it would come to be mine, my very own—and then Mother gave it to me for my birthday.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Then an elation came over him in spite of everything, whether his wife were strange or sad, or whether he craved for her to be with him, it did not matter, the air rang with clear noises, the sky was like crystal, like a bell, and the earth was hard.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The lower part of the neck and inner parts of the limbs are white; the spots are continued upon the tail, which is long, and black at the extremity.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

“to suck at the Paternoster like a baby, and to eat and drink it like a man,” “never wearying of it”; he was also “very fond of the Psalter,” turning “the whole as far as possible into a prayer,” [1888]
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The supremacy very lately admitted by all the eastern mountain chiefs to the Rajas of Yumila, is a strong presumption in favour of this opinion.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

Rand-Brown looked awfully bad at the end of the round.
— from The Gold Bat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

We grovelled before him, we suffered his peculiar manners, which had they been our own we should sometimes have labelled as bad, as the eccentricities of a superior being.
— from The Champagne Standard by Lane, John, Mrs.

226 A great splash of light lit up the whole roof of the forest clear as day, and the darkness shut down again with a bang that hit the ear like a blow, and the echoes of it roared and rumbled and muttered, and died, and Silence wrapped herself again in her robe and sat to wait.
— from The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Amyl acetate, CH 3 ·COOC 5 H 11 , and linalyl acetate, CH 3 ·COOC 10 H 17 , the latter occurring in the oils of lavender and bergamot, are typical esters classed as essential oils.
— from The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher