It is very difficult to decide how far these correlated modifications are the result of natural selection, and how far of the inherited effects of the increased use of certain parts, or of the action of one part on another.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

Madames Bertrand and Montholon and the rest of Napoleon's suite, for whom there was not room at The Briars, often came to see him there, and remained during the day.
— from Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Helen Leah Reed

The chief materials used by the Alexandrine writers in their poetry were the tales and fancies of the old mythology and the results of natural science; the modes of human feeling to which they mainly gave expression were the passion of love and the sensibility to the beauty of Nature.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar