It expresses in the main a conviction, usually left unexplained, that everything “happens naturally,” that man is really descended from monkeys, and that life has “evolved from lower stages” of itself, that dualism is wrong, and that monism is the truth.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

Abbreviations for feather tracts in which downs were found: ca, capital; h, humeral; a, alar; d, d´, dorsal; cr, crural; v, ventral. PLATE 6 An aerial view of the marshes at Chadwick (upper left) and Lavallette (lower left).
— from Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima by Glen Everett Woolfenden

[114] MEET TOMMY, D. C. MEDAL MAN IF war is not a great leveler—and we have been told numberless times that it is—it is certainly the Great American Mixer, and Camp Upton, L. I., is probably the best example extant thereof, so to speak.
— from Stories from the Trenches: Humorous and Lively Doings of Our 'Boys Over There' by Carleton B. (Carleton Britton) Case

The infuriated beetle cleared the mound, and crawled under leaves and sticks to sweep off his clinging enemies, and finally seemed to escape them by burying himself in the earth.
— from Fresh Fields by John Burroughs

He pictured Trudy as a diamond in the rough, and in subtle, careful fashion gave Beatrice to understand that just as she had married a diamond in the rough––with a Virginia City grandfather and a Basque grandmother and the champion record of goat tending––so he, too, had been democratic enough to put aside precedent and marry a charming, unspoiled little person with both beauty and ability, and certainly he was to be congratulated since he had been married for love alone, Truletta knowing full well his unfortunate and straitened circumstances....
— from The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

Now every Association must needs, of course, have wardens or masters; it must needs elect to those posts of dignity and responsibility such men as could understand law and maintain their privileges if necessary before the dread Sovereign, his Highness the King.
— from As We Are and As We May Be by Walter Besant

If authority shall appoint such a mortifying, abstemious course upon lawful or tolerable grounds and ends, I will obey them, if they peremptorily require it, when my health or some greater duty forbiddeth it not.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

For the moment his fits of morbidness and continual unrest left him, he contrived constantly to be with the woman he loved, and even followed her and her husband to Spa.
— from Builders of United Italy by Rupert Sargent Holland