During the year 1860, however, in the month of July, I came across a community with an unusually large stock of slaves, and I observed a few slaves mingled with their masters leaving the nest, and marching along the same road to a tall Scotch-fir tree, twenty-five yards distant, which they ascended together, probably in search of aphides or cocci.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Finally, I ask the question: Did a woman herself ever acknowledge profundity in a woman's mind, or justice in a woman's heart?
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Courage is, then, an affection of mind that endures all things, being itself in proper subjection to the highest of all laws; or it may be called a firm maintenance of judgment in supporting or repelling everything that has a formidable appearance, or a knowledge of what is formidable or otherwise, and maintaining invariably a stable judgment of all such things, so as to bear them or despise them; or, in fewer words, according to Chrysippus (for the above definitions are Sphærus’s, a man of the first ability as a layer-down of definitions, as the Stoics think.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

My only justification is that my old dad—though otherwise he was perfectly sane, and packed an awful wallop when it came to trimming the City Fellers at checkers—named me after the family doc, old Dr. Ambrose Follansbee.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The middle of July is Martha's time, as far as she has any time.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

In like manner I would have you consider that he who appears to you to be the worst of those who have been brought up in laws and humanities, would appear to be a just man and a master of justice if he were to be compared with men who had no education, or courts of justice, or laws, or any restraints upon them which compelled them to practise virtue—with the savages, for example, whom the poet Pherecrates exhibited on the stage at the last year's Lenaean festival.
— from Protagoras by Plato

Ice Cream Treat .—One hot day toward the middle of June, I gave the inmates of Carver hospital a general ice cream treat, purchasing a large quantity, and, under convoy of the doctor or head nurse, going around personally through the wards to see to its distribution.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The Mother of Jesus is shown to have been pure and to have "kept her maidenhood" 90 ; it was the Jews who spoke against Mary "a grievous calumny."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Jeanne, my own Jeanne, is leaning upon me and reading over my shoulder, which distracts the flow of my recollections.
— from The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Volume 3 by René Bazin

40 is put into the mouth of Jesus is another passage used with equal incorrectness, and a glimpse of the manner in which Christian tradition took shape, and the Gospels were composed, may be obtained by comparing with the passage in the first Synoptic the parallel in the third (xi. 29—31).(1)
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

It is my own justification I am thinking of."
— from The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

At what date stage-coaches began to supersede the old waggons, which (apart from saddle and pack horses) were the only means of journeying in England in Queen Elizabeth’s time, is not known.
— from Horses Past and Present by Gilbey, Walter, Sir

Its walls and gates, its ornate houses, its fort and Sanmicheli [Pg 277] tower, all set like a mosaic of jewels in a ring of myrtles, oleanders, and laurels, delighted our eyes; and the farther we went on the way to Spalato, keeping always by the glittering sea, the more beautiful grew the scene.
— from My Friend the Chauffeur by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

First, it was provided that the sessions of the General Assembly should commence on the first Monday of January instead of on the first Monday of December.
— from History of the Constitutions of Iowa by Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh

“The middle of June, if all’s well, and we’ll stay on as long as we are happy and enjoying ourselves.
— from Big Game: A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Once genius is granted, heaven-born genius, a mother-wit beyond the dreams of fancy, and then plain humdrum men, ordinary judicial intelligences, will do well to be on their guard against it.
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

This is the first mention of Jews in Berlin and Brandenburg.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz