el Orinoco o por su afluente el Apure, hasta donde lo permita la profundidad del agua.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

He was to roam around the world till he should meet a beautiful woman wearing on her bosom a jewel in the shape of a heart—whether of pearl or ruby or emerald or carbuncle or a changeful opal, or perhaps a priceless diamond, Ralph Cranfield little cared, so long as it were a heart of one peculiar shape.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some Considerations On War In Democratic Communities Book Four: Influence Of Democratic Opinions On Political Society Chapter I: That Equality Naturally Gives Men A Taste For Freedom Chapter II: That The Notions Of Democratic Nations On Government Chapter III:
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It proved to be the object of profound suspicion on the part of many members of Congress, and its function was to stimulate and assist inward media of public information in support of the war effort.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Our proper attitude toward them in this matter is one of patience, sympathy, and help.
— from The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions by R. B. (Rufus Benton) Peery

Even the seemingly isolated topic of the recent illness of the Bishop's wife led full upon the picture of other people she had been seeing that summer who looked ill.
— from The Visioning: A Novel by Susan Glaspell

The lower order of people seemed to be animated by curiosity and astonishment rather than any other feeling.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 13 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

The final doctrine did not in the least affect the argument of the earlier, which was simply one of positive science; but the clerical world, which had in the usual fashion denounced the scientific doctrine, not on the score of any attack by Cabanis upon religion, but because of its incompatibility with the notion of the soul, naturally made much of the mystical, 227 and accorded its framer authority from that moment.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

If only one person swears, the property shall be given to that person alone.
— from Studies in Moro History, Law, and Religion by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

Dianthus caryophyllus—offspring of plants self-fertilised for three generations and then crossed by a fresh stock, compared with the offspring of plants self-fertilised for three generations and then crossed by plants of the third intercrossed generation, in fertility: .. : .. : .. : .. : 45.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin