Come, let us get up, and ask God to forgive us the sins we have committed; and we will not come out until the end of the day next to the fortieth.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

If under changing conditions of life organic beings present individual differences in almost every part of their structure, and this cannot be disputed; if there be, owing to their geometrical rate of increase, a severe struggle for life at some age, season or year, and this certainly cannot be disputed; then, considering the infinite complexity of the relations of all organic beings to each other and to their conditions of life, causing an infinite diversity in structure, constitution, and habits, to be advantageous to them, it would be a most extraordinary fact if no variations had ever occurred useful to each being's own welfare, in the same manner as so many variations have occurred useful to man.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Quite on the contrary, it translates everything essential in the relations which [Pg 226] are to be explained: for it is an eternal truth that outside of us there exists something greater than us, with which we enter into communion.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The rent of the landlord is a value which, in ordinary cases, it is continually producing over and above replacing, in the most complete manner, the whole consumption, the whole expense laid out upon the employment and maintenance both of the workmen and of their employer.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In love, y-wis, that al that bereth lyf 835 Imaginen ne cowde how to ben bet; For, lord, with-outen Ialousye or stryf, I love oon which that is most ententyf To serven wel, unwery or unfeyned, That ever was, and leest with harm distreyned.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

From these reasons I am compelled to believe that the Deacons, although originally appointed by the Master and Senior Warden, are not removable by either, but retain their offices until the expiration of the year.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear!
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

These disputes held on until the elections for substituting a consul.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Where the barbarian was friendly to them, we stayed our hands from injury; or under their escort, we did damage to their enemies to the utmost of our power.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

If not, they would have to fly it again and again, until it should get fastened above, or until the experiment should prove a failure.
— from The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid

Every crevice had been filled with little and big pots of jam, and marmalade, and honey, a tongue, a Dutch cheese, chocolate-paste, anchovies, a pie without gravy, and a fine plum-cake were only some of the eatables,—then there was a hammer and nails, and gimlets, and screws, and a hasp-knife, and a writing-case, and a number of other useful things; enough, as Paul declared, to enable him to set up house by himself, if he wished.
— from Digby Heathcote: The Early Days of a Country Gentleman's Son and Heir by William Henry Giles Kingston

The Doctor used to go out upon the Edgeware road,—not for his love of trees, but to escape noise and duns.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

This vocal salute, a mere tag of eight or nine syllables, each with its distinctive note, was repeated over and over until the Emperor was seated.
— from The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White

What a chance for some God, in this age of unbelief, to establish his rule over mankind on the firm foundations of faith!
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

This word was not only used to express courage by our early seamen, but was also applied to strength; as, "we had a brave wind."
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

The wind blew strong, and drove the [Pg 205] clouds forwards on the side of the mountain above our heads:—two storm-stiffened, black yew-trees fixed our notice, seen through, or under the edge of, the flying mists, four or five goats were bounding among the rocks;—the sheep moved about more quietly, or cowered beneath their sheltering places.
— from Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love by Edmund Lee

Finally some who were not worried to death took the telegrams, opened them all, and pinned them in separate packages in alphabetical order and then put them back on the table again, and they have been pored over, until their edges are frayed, by all the people who crowded into the little low-roofed room where Dictator Scott and his messengers are.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

How long is this to be allowed to go on under the eyes of the authorities?
— from Farthest North, Vol. I Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

That was what Earl was preparing for when he opened up the engine.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman