There is green mould in the grooves of the letters and yellow streaks on the marble, which come from more years than men could count.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

Finally, in most cases comes P - K B 4, and then the real attack begins.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

Mientras comía con mucho gusto, el posadero preguntó al huésped: —¿Acaso le gustará a Vd.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

All this shows the wide diffusion of magic, its extreme importance and also the fact that it is always strongest there, [ 396 ] where vital interests are concerned; where violent passions or emotions are awakened; when mysterious forces are opposed to man’s endeavours; and when he has to recognise that there is something which eludes his most careful calculations, his most conscientious preparations and efforts.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The most common case, especially with respect to very distinct groups, such as fish and reptiles, seems to be, that supposing them to be distinguished at the present day from each other by a dozen characters, the ancient members of the same two groups would be distinguished by a somewhat lesser number of characters, so that the two groups, though formerly quite distinct, at that period made some small approach to each other.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

clavata, Luffa Ægyptiaca, Momordica balsamina, M. charanta, Citrullus Colocynthis 127 – 134 Ficoideæ —Trianthema monogyna 134 Umbelliferæ —Hydrocotyle Asiatica, Carum copticum, Fœniculum vulgare, Coriandrum sativum 134 – 138 Cornaceæ —Alangium Lamarkii 138 – 139 Dicotyledonous, Gamopetalous.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

s. , S, C3; dærst , MD; derst , MD; dar , pr. s. , MD, C2, C3, P; durren , pl. , MD; duren , S; doren , W; durre , pr.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The Vanessa ones perhaps display a little of the hopelessly enigmatic character which spreads like a mist over the whole of that ill-starred relationship: but they make all the more useful contrast to the "wholeheartedness"—one may even use that word in reference to the little bit of what we may call constructive deception as to "the other person"—of those to her rival.
— from A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury

The women were sulky, and the men commenced cursing and swearing, and said they thought they were entitled to all the rights of matrimony.
— from Building a State in Apache Land by Charles D. (Charles Debrille) Poston

Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: natural prolongation exclusive economic zone: bilateral agreements, or median lines in the Persian Gulf territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: mostly arid or semiarid, subtropical along Caspian coast Terrain: rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts, mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts Elevation extremes: lowest point: Caspian Sea -28 m highest point: Qolleh-ye Damavand 5,671 m Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, chromium, copper, iron ore, lead, manganese, zinc, sulfur Land use: arable land: 10% permanent crops: 1% permanent pastures: 27% forests and woodland: 7% other: 55% (1993 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Bunco men can clean him out in a gambling joint, but who ever heard of their selling him a gold brick?
— from The Westerners by Stewart Edward White

For, instead of digging in the ordinary way, the men carefully cut down through what was not earth, but thick well-compressed black peat, each piece, about ten inches square and three or four thick, to be carefully laid up like so much open brickwork to drain and dry.
— from Dick o' the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn

Those of the present day more cleverly call themselves Kings of France, Spain, England, etc.: thus holding the land, they are quite confident of holding the inhabitants.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She must have heard the strains that have so excited my curiosity, coming from my neighbor's chamber.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

That afternoon Blue Bonnet was in her own room, just finishing a letter to her uncle, when Miss Clyde came to her door.
— from A Texas Blue Bonnet by Caroline Emilia Jacobs

Seen from the incense-laden sanctuary, where the bishop was assuming one by one the pontifical ornaments, La Beauce, like a many- coloured carpet spread under the great dome, with the white double house-front quivering afar through the heat, though it looked as if you might touch with the hand its distant spaces, was for a moment the unreal thing.
— from Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Walter Pater

I opened the window, but a great many cinders came in, and a lady in the section next to mine asked me to close it again, so I had to.
— from The Girl from Arizona by Nina Rhoades