Several of the expressions were instantly recognised by almost everyone, though described in not exactly the same terms; and these may, I think, be relied on as truthful, and will hereafter be specified.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

—At first men imposed their own personalities on Nature: everywhere they saw themselves and their like, i.e. their own evil and capricious temperaments, hidden, as it were, behin
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There were two little children—girls—by his father's second marriage, and there was not enough to support them and their mother and allow Robert to continue his reading for the law.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Lola made no effort to stop them, and they walked on up the beach in search of peace and quiet, Mrs. Harlan angry and disgusted, Bob deeply discouraged.
— from Lola by Owen Davis

But at the moment when the news came, the method of the thing was of far less importance than the thing itself, for it is no exaggeration to say that at the end of the first week of November the spirits of the nation were at an exceedingly low ebb.
— from The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen

On my expressing interest in there being a Finn present, the gentleman of that nationality stated that he and fifty-four of his companions came to the Congo State six years ago; that they were now ending their second term, and that fifty-one out of the original number were still living.
— from The Truth About the Congo: The Chicago Tribune Articles by Frederick Starr

No one therefore will be surprised if I now further testify concerning communications which come home to me in a peculiar sense; communications from which sentiment is not excluded, though still they appear to be guided and managed with intelligent and on the whole evidential purpose.
— from Raymond; or, Life and Death With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death. by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

They took the same course, only not exactly the same track, and they stayed thirty-two days only, in which time they killed no less than fifteen leopards, three lions, and several other creatures, and brought us home four-and-twenty pound some ounces of gold-dust, and only six elephants' teeth, but they were very great ones.
— from The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe

If they were not encouraged to suppose that all the world is of their own mind, if they were forced out of that atmosphere of self-indulgent silences and hypocritical reserves, which is systematically poured round them, they would acquire a robuster mental habit.
— from On Compromise by John Morley

It is not enough to say that all this has come to pass according to the will of God, and that their continued existence is owing to His intervention on their behalf.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

They had not even the sense to alter their translations so that their indebtedness to it should not have been so glaringly obvious.
— from David Blaize by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

They are so acute and shy, that it is only by the greatest patience and skill that the hunter can approach near enough to shoot them; and they are so swift, and leap with such extraordinary sureness of foot, that to overtake them is impossible.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon