A multitude of dogs, I could hear, fought over the bodies that lay darkly in the depth of the pit, far below me.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Does blood pre-exist in the food, or does it come into existence in the body?
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Till our deathes it cannot; [Enter Emilia and her woman (below).]
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If our theory of desire is correct, a belief as to its purpose may very well be erroneous, since only experience can show what causes a discomfort to cease.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Roland. ROBESPIERRE, Maximilien, account of, derided in Constituent Assembly, Jacobin, incorruptible, on tip of left, elected public accuser, after King's flight, at close of Assembly, at Arras, position of, plans in 1792, chief priest of Jacobins, invisible on August Tenth, reappears, on September Massacre, in National Convention, accused by Girondins, accused by Louvet, acquitted, King's trial, Condorcet on, at Queen's trial, in Salut Committee, and Paris Municipality, embraces Danton, Desmoulins and, and Danton, Danton on, at trial, his three scoundrels, supreme, to be assassinated, at Feast of Etre Supreme, apocalyptic, Theot, on Couthon's plot-decree, reserved, his schemes, fails in Convention, applauded at Jacobins, accused, rescued, at Townhall, declared out of law, half-killed, guillotined, essential to Revolution.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

People with a lot of ability, who know a great deal, often appear like a set of dummies in company, while some superficial, shallow-brained person holds the attention of those present simply because he can tell what he knows in an interesting way.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

We have seen that this is the rule of development in certain whole groups of animals, as with cuttle-fish and spiders, and with a few members of the great class of insects, as with Aphis.
— 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

Such is its nature that, as fast as one doubt is cut away, innumerable others spring up like Hydra's heads, nor could we set any limit to their renewal did we not apply the mind's living fire to suppress them.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Even when, slightly thawing under the influence of sparkling champagne, she related to her son-in-law some passages of domestic interest concerning her papa, she infused into the narrative such Arctic suggestions of her having been an unappreciated blessing to mankind, since her papa's days, and also of that gentleman's having been a frosty impersonation of a frosty race, as struck cold to the very soles of the feet of the hearers.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Speed of development is commonly defined by the velocity constant , symbolized by κ , which is arrived at mathematically from a consideration of the time of development to produce two different contrast values.
— from Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives

``No person shall sell to the purchaser any article of food or any drug which is not of the nature, substance and quality of the article demanded by the purchaser under a penalty not exceeding L. 20; provided that an offence shall not be deemed to be committed under this section in the following cases: (1) where any matter or ingredient not injurious to health has been added to the food or drug because the same is required for the production or preparation thereof as an article of commerce, in a state fit for carriage or consumption, and not fraudulently to increase the bulk, weight or measure of the food or drug, or conceal the inferior quality thereof; (2) where the food or drug is a proprietary medicine, or is the subject of a patent in force and is supplied in the state required by the specification of the patent; (3) where the food or drug is compounded as in the act mentioned; (4) where the food or drug is unavoidably mixed with some extraneous matter in the process of collection or preparation.''
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Amid a rolling cloud of dust I caught a glimpse of a pale, agitated face—a face with horror in every lineament, the mouth open, the eyes staring wildly in front.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, February 1904, No. 159. by Various

"Make professors (régents) for me," said he one day in connection with the Ecole normale, "and not littérateurs, wits or seekers or inventors in any branch of knowledge."
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

Taking its history from the commencement, and tracing it to our own day, it can hardly be said, delusion though it was, that it has been wholly without its uses.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay

Europe also has seen such dynamic alterations of divinities in cases where feasts would insist till patrons of an orthodox kind were foisted upon them to give an air of propriety to that which remained heathenish.[42]
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

It is in quiet and subdued passages of unobtrusive majesty, the deep and the calm, and the perpetual; that which must be sought ere it is seen, and loved ere it is understood; things which the angels work out for us daily, and yet vary eternally; which are never wanting, and never repeated; which are to be found always, yet each found but once;—it is through these that the lesson of devotion is chiefly taught, and the blessing of beauty given.
— from Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters' by John Ruskin

I looke to be either Earle or Duke, I can assure you Prin.
— from Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

Even as he was planning a mode of defence in case of recognition, the young man was presented.
— from The Husbands of Edith by George Barr McCutcheon

And Bob Ferguson, our very dear friend who had made America his home, and was like a member of our family, writes early in June: “You should see some of the broncho busting that has been going on daily in camp;—the most surprising horsemanship, and though it cost about a man a day at first, knocked clean out, the busted-rate is now diminishing.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson