The same equable climate would probably cause a more uniform distribution of moisture, and render what are now desert regions capable of supporting abundance of animal life.
— from Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace

But I need not linger any more among rats, which are not my subject.
— from Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken

The last is designed to punish endeavors and combinations to make a revolt, which are not fully carried out.
— from The Seaman's Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service by Richard Henry Dana

(So much for marrying a rich wife and nothing else.
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

But his sympathies should be warm and keen, and his mind always responsive, when a new planet swims into his ken.
— from Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps

Presently, after a careful reconnoitring from several long-bearded monks, a rope with a net at the end of it came slowly down to us, a distance of about twenty-five fathoms; and being bundled into the net, I was slowly drawn up into the monastery, where I was lugged in at the window by two of the strongest of the brethren, and after having been dragged along the floor and unpacked, I was presented to the admiring gaze of the whole reverend community, who were assembled round the capstan.
— from Visits to Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon

They were away five minutes, and returned with a "No" to all the questions.
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

I had firmly intended to marry a rich woman, and now I am forming all sorts of preposterous notions—" Then, on the bench where I had first seen her, I perceived a book.
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

How, on the other hand, could I make a reference without a new plunge into the hideous obscure?
— from The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End by Henry James