Either he is growing stronger, healthier, wiser, as the youth approaching manhood, or he is growing weaker, older, less incisive mentally, as the man approaching old age.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The art of Life is more like that of the wrestler than of the dancer; for the wrestler must always be ready on his guard, and stand firm against the sudden, unforeseen efforts of his adversary.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

As lakes and river-systems are separated from each other by barriers of land, it might have been thought that fresh-water productions would not have ranged widely within the same country, and as the sea is apparently a still more impassable barrier, that they never would have extended to distant countries.
— 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

It exhibits, as that inscription does, the effect of Chinese temperament or language, in modifying or diluting doctrinal statements.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Those armies which have whole regiments of light infantry may distribute them through the different brigades; but it would be preferable to detail sharp-shooters alternately in each company as they are needed, which would be practicable
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The officer went on:— “Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

For-why to every lovere I me excuse, That of no sentement I this endyte, But out of Latin in my tonge it wryte.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

If organic tissue is capable of life it must react to every stimulus.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“All the time that she was telling me this story she never once looked in my direction, and her voice was quite unlike her usual tones.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

People of less importance married to English women—"matrimonia quoque cum subditis jungunt"
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

Beside us, purple-zoned, Wachuset laid His head against the West, whose warm light made His aureole; and o'er him, sharp and clear, Like a shaft of lightning in mid-launching stayed, A single level cloud-line, shone upon
— from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

In the last years of his life Mr. Rankin owned about thirty thousand acres of land in Missouri.
— from The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

In a way it is a happy ending, and in a way it isn't, because I've grown away from the kind of life I must live with Tommy, and I am afraid that in some ways I am not fitted for it.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

But “through progress and backsliding, amid infectious contact with idolatry, amid survival of old growths of superstition, of the crude practices of the past; amid the solicitation of new aspects of life; in material prosperity and in material ruin,” Israel was never wholly detached from God.
— from Studies in Judaism, First Series by S. (Solomon) Schechter

And with good reason, for sooner or later it meant a fall, and death.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

But though Wallace declares "natural selection, as the law of the strongest, inadequate" to account for man's mental and moral development, since the finer feelings and capacities could have been of no use to human beings in the early stages of barbarism, and further maintains that it is also difficult to understand how "feelings developed by one set of actions could be transferred to acts of which the utility was partial, imaginary, or altogether absent," he nevertheless has other passages like the following: "In proportion as physical characteristics become of less importance, mental and moral qualities will have increasing influence on the well-being of the race.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

The bird learns but one lesson; it may carry from Antwerp to London, or to any other place, but it will only pass between two such places.
— from Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of Popular Toys and Sports by John Ayrton Paris

The caterpillar, represented on Plate 27 , Fig. 1, was found with others on larkspur in Mr. Herbert Smith's garden at Wallington, Surrey.
— from The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to Hepialidæ by Richard South

Hortense devoted herself with iron diligence, and untiring enthusiasm, to her studies, which consisted, not only in the acquisition of languages, in music, and drawing, history and geography, but still more in the mastering the so-called bon ton and that aristocratic savoir vivre of which Madame Campan was a very model.
— from Queen Hortense: A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era by L. (Luise) Mühlbach