THE EXPLOITATION OF INFERIOR RACES IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES: An Essay in 'Liberalism and the Empire.' EURIPIDIS FABULAE: Brevi Adnotatione Critica Instructae, Vols.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

Looking at the entire eastern face of the Portillo range, the red colour far exceeds in area the black; yet it was scarcely possible to doubt that the granite had once been almost wholly encased by the mica-schist.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

[618] element no less than its dependence from the first cause, and is altogether immutable so long as the element exists; for, on the one hand, the element cannot exist but within the domain of divine immensity, and, on the other, it cannot have different modes of being with regard to it, as absolute space is the same all throughout, and the element, however much we may try to imagine different positions for it, must always be in the centre, so to say, of that infinite expanse.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

On this twilight evening the captain of the schooner, assisted by a portion of his crew, deliberately took down part of the fence which enclosed a sand-lot bounded by Montgomery, Sutter and Post Streets; driving into the centre of the lot; the horses—four jaded beasts—were turned loose, and soon a camp-fire was lighted and the entire emigrant family gathered about it to partake of the evening meal.
— from In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard

In this world we should accustom ourselves from childhood to like and to eat everything, for there is no saying to what we may be brought.
— from Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi

In the presentation of this vast literature to men of eminence and rank the elected representatives, as well as the traveling teachers, of the American Bahá’í community, aided by Assemblies in other lands, have, likewise, exhibited an energy and determination as laudable as the efforts exerted for its production.
— from God Passes By by Effendi Shoghi

Mr. Astle was keeper of the ancient Records of the English Government in the Tower of London, and thus enjoyed extraordinary facilities for ascertaining such facts, and making such observations as he furnishes in his very useful, interesting, and elegantly illustrated book.
— from The History of Ink, Including Its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography by Thaddeus Davids