He neither ate nor drank until he dropped down on the ground from hunger and thirst.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

The Arickarees, however, regard this stone as the wife of one of their braves, who was so pained and mortified when her husband took a second wife that she went out into the prairie and neither ate nor drank until she died, when the Great Spirit turned her into the Standing Stone.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 06 : Central States and Great Lakes by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

Let him see these engines performing the work of two millions of men, and moving machinery which accomplishes what would require the unaided labors of three or four hundred millions of men, and he could not doubt but such a result was one of the objects of that rank vegetation which covered the earth ere it was fit for the residence of such natures as now dwell upon it.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

"Will nothing and nobody divide us?"
— from The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

Systems of nosology are no doubt useful or convenient, in the same manner as systems of zoology and botany; but so complicated are the phenomena of Nature, and so diversified her productions, that no arrangement, made according to any principles hitherto assumed, can possibly discriminate objects in conformity with all their connexions.
— from Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

I ever thought the study of it my best entertainment and pastime, but I have no ambition nor design upon the style.'
— from Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons

The high gig had been coming quickly nearer, and now drew up before the two women.
— from Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

Murkertach, the base of whose early operations was his own patrimony in Ulster, attacked near Newry a Northern division under the command of the son of Godfrey (A.D. 926), and left 800 dead on the field.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

I have neither anxiety nor doubt upon the noblest and the most comforting of all creeds, and I am grateful, among the other blessings which faith has brought me,—I am grateful that it has brought me CHARITY!
— from Devereux — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron