3201 The change in the digestive functions during metamorphosis is scarcely less extraordinary; frogs, for example, which feed on animal substances at maturity, subsist entirely upon vegetable when in the condition of larvæ, and the subsidiary organs undergo remarkable development,
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

A few days after the surprise of Powles Hook, the long expected fleet from Europe, under the command of Admiral Arbuthnot, having on board a reinforcement for the British army, arrived at New York.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

Captain Brant and the Indian deputation proceeded on their return to Miami, in advance of the Commissioners, the latter embarking from Fort Erie on the 14th.
— from Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795 by William L. (William Leete) Stone

C. Quintius, Aufilena; to Caelius, Aufilenus; Lovers each, fair flower either of youths Veronese.
— from The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Translated in the Metres of the Original by Gaius Valerius Catullus

Some of this light even floated from enormous braziers, thereby filling the night with clouds of mist-flame; or flooded across the bay from reservoirs of tinted glass, thereby sluicing the whole dream-world with fluid color.
— from The Native Son by Inez Haynes Gillmore

One of these leaves every Friday for England, and besides the mail, carries about fifteen hundred passengers.
— from Francisco, Our Little Argentine Cousin by Eva Cannon Brooks

Listen, for example, to the account which Plutarch gives of his influence upon the young Alcibiades: "Alcibiades, listening now to language entirely free from every thought of unmanly fondness and silly displays of affection, finding himself with one who sought to lay open to him the deficiencies of his mind, and repress his vain and foolish arrogance, 'Dropped like the craven cock his conquered wing.'
— from The Greek View of Life by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson

Treating the episode of Bourbon restoration as null and void, the edicts of Lyons expelled from France every emigrant who had returned without the permission of the Republic or the Emperor; they drove from the army the whole mass of officers intruded by the Government of Louis XVIII.; they invalidated every appointment and every dismissal made in the magistracy since the 1st of April, 1814; and, reverting to the law of the Constituent Assembly of 1789, abolished all nobility except that which had been conferred by the Emperor himself.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe